Defend Special Education
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We special education teachers, parents, nurses, and other school staff
join with the community of Oakland to defend our students. They need
fully-staffed, well-funded, high-quality special education programs to advance in school and succeed in life. Three years after the Oakland Unified School District was taken over by the state, meager budgets and district-wide administrative chaos have created a crisis in special education.The promise of intensive services for the students who need them the most -- won out of the Civil Rights Movement -- was a crucial gain for the entire public education system and for equality in this nation. We stand together in defending these programs now. We demand the following changes for the benefit of our students:
1. SMALL CLASS SIZES in both Special Day Classes and Resource Specialist
classrooms. This is key to meeting the needs of the students we serve.
2. FULL STAFFING for every Special Education classroom. Recruitment and
training programs for paraprofessionals (aides) must be expedited and working
conditions and pay improved to fill the many vacancies.
3. LIMIT CASELOADS for psychologists, nurses, other support staff and
teachers. Some nurses are assigned nearly 20 sites! Student services suffer from this overload. Teachers and special education support staff must be hired, and working conditions improved so they can be retained.
4. EQUAL FACILITIES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS! No teaching in
illegal settings such as storage rooms, cafeterias, and other noisy
environments.
5. PROVIDE ADEQUATE CURRICULUM MATERIALS as well as supplies, telephones, file cabinets that lock, and functioning computers for IEP documentation.
join with the community of Oakland to defend our students. They need
fully-staffed, well-funded, high-quality special education programs to advance in school and succeed in life. Three years after the Oakland Unified School District was taken over by the state, meager budgets and district-wide administrative chaos have created a crisis in special education.The promise of intensive services for the students who need them the most -- won out of the Civil Rights Movement -- was a crucial gain for the entire public education system and for equality in this nation. We stand together in defending these programs now. We demand the following changes for the benefit of our students:
1. SMALL CLASS SIZES in both Special Day Classes and Resource Specialist
classrooms. This is key to meeting the needs of the students we serve.
2. FULL STAFFING for every Special Education classroom. Recruitment and
training programs for paraprofessionals (aides) must be expedited and working
conditions and pay improved to fill the many vacancies.
3. LIMIT CASELOADS for psychologists, nurses, other support staff and
teachers. Some nurses are assigned nearly 20 sites! Student services suffer from this overload. Teachers and special education support staff must be hired, and working conditions improved so they can be retained.
4. EQUAL FACILITIES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS! No teaching in
illegal settings such as storage rooms, cafeterias, and other noisy
environments.
5. PROVIDE ADEQUATE CURRICULUM MATERIALS as well as supplies, telephones, file cabinets that lock, and functioning computers for IEP documentation.
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100 signatures
Goal: 100
Latest Signatures
15 November 2015
3 September 2015
26 August 2015
98.
Sara D
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How we educate our most needy, is a sign of who we are as a people
Teacher? Community? Parent?
Community
23 August 2015
22 July 2015
10 April 2015
8 April 2015
94.
Kate C
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Providing a quality education should not be a selective process. All of our children are important as individuals. They are our future. What they learn now, about how we care for them, they take forward into their future.
Teacher? Community? Parent?
Pare
16 March 2015
93.
Alicia S
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Children are our future, if we don't invest in them, what kind of future will we have.
15 February 2015
92.
Marilyn Bn
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One of my colleagues teaching Special Ed has not had a phone all year.
Teacher? Community? Parent?
teacher
7 February 2015
12 January 2015
17 December 2014
89.
Eric B
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I support the petition because it is in the service of loving kindness towards those who are socially weaker and financially more vulnerable.
Teacher? Community? Parent?
Teacher. Former special education substitute teacher.
26 July 2014
88.
Tom Y
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Union Jobs Means Better Schools for Students & Parents
Teacher? Community? Parent?
Proud Union Member. Union Researcher, SEIU
30 June 2014
87.
Barbara C
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I am a strong advocate of special education and urge that appropriate funding be allocated to properly address all needs of the students
Teacher? Community? Parent?
Community; SEIU supporter
18 May 2014
3 April 2014
26 March 2014
23 March 2014
3 March 2014
17 December 2013
21 August 2013
23 March 2013
27 February 2013
9 January 2013
5 November 2012
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