I’m trying to find out what kind of money the school gets for my son. I’m assuming they get something both from the state and the fed? On the IEP it is marked that he is in Fund A. I’ve tried looking on the Illinois State Board of Education (where the form came from) and many other links but can’t seem to find what I’m looking for.
He gets nothing other than assistance from the full-time sped teacher. No OT or any other services, so I’m wondering where the money goes?
Where can I go to learn about the whole funding side of things?
thanks Janis, can I ask you this?
Okay, I see. I thought maybe there was some sort of division.
I know this is only a dream but I want to shoot for the stars in hopes of getting only a piece of the sky. If I wanted to request that the school bring in Lindamood-Bell, someone who is already trained and ready to go immediately, how do I go about doing this correctly? I know if I even say Lindamood, I’ll be shut down immediately.
I ask this because I know, as a parent, I am not entitled to ask for specific programs.
We have one sped teacher who floats from class to class supposedly attending to all the kids needs. I just don’t see how this is humanly possible. Doing some investigating, I have also found that they use a hodge podge of programs, nothing consistant, and no one is certified in any of these programs they claim to use.
My son says that she confuses him when she tries to help. In the 3 years she has been “helping” him things have not improved, they have gotten worse.
To cut to the chase: How do I get what I want tactfully without blowing it?
Re: thanks Janis, can I ask you this?
Just my experience—but it isn’t encouraging. My son did not learn to read in first grade. In second I hired a private advocate who helped us get an appropriate IEP. She was a LMB tutor (too far away to be useful to us) and she wrote the IEP to need LMB to be implemented correctly. Well, the district just tried to implement it using the same old program that my son had not learned to read with the previous year. I ended up pulling him out of resource room and teaching him myself that year.
In my experience it is very difficult to force a district to do anything they don’t want unless you are willing to take them to due process. I decided to spend my money and energy on private remediation.
Beth
Lulu,
The funds do not go to a specific child, they go into a big pot. The the special ed. director makes a budget and decides how many teachers to hire, how much can be spent on materials, etc.
Janis