I recently reviewed a letter from the City Comptroller’s Office to the Department of Education (DOE). As many parents already know, the DOE has made a habit out of blaming the city comptroller for delaying settlement by taking too long to approve cash pay-outs associated with tuition reimbursement settlements. For years, this was the common excuse given as cases dragged on into spring and even summer.
Read MorePratt Institute’s Rosemary Arpino made waves recently with her senior thesis. Rosemary chose to do a theoretical redesign of the Individualized Education Plan, or IEP. The IEP is a document we've referenced many times in our blog as being central to the education of special needs kids. At times, the IEP also serves as a legal document when it becomes necessary to advocate for a child's needs at trial. Rosemary's project tries to take the IEP and solve some big problems with it.
Read MoreIn a typical year, parents will be thinking about school supplies, school clothes, and what reading their child will need to do in advance of the school year. This year is different, in large part because there are so many unknowns.
Read MoreI'm aware that Gottlieb & Gottlieb is literally two white guys, but that is as self-conscious as I would like to be. As the saying goes, I’m going to “dance like nobody's watching.”
Read MoreI think by now most of my readers are painfully aware that the New York City public schools are closed and in a remote-learning posture until the end of the school year.
Read MoreThe Department of Education in New York City has begun issuing demands for “satisfactory documentation” that the student continues to receive special educational methodologies during the private schools closures. Absent that documentation, the DOE is going to treat the whole time that private schools are closed as unexcused absences.
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