Deped's Thrusts

Before children can be declared eligible for special education or placed in a special education program, they must be evaluated by a team of professionals. The law requires that schools and other agencies give tests to children that show both their strengths and their weaknesses. This is called nondiscriminatory testing. All tests must be given to children in their own language and in such a way that their abilities and their disabilities are accurately displayed. Children will be placed in special education based upon several tests, not upon one single test or test score. Nondiscriminatory testing ensures that children who do not need special education will not be placed there, and that children who need special school services will get them. (Parent Educational

The program was intended to help cities build schools and provide healthcare and job training.

The second aim of this step is to inform the school community about the broad policy development process and to provide an

The minutes and services are determined by many different factors. Such as, the students strengths, needs and the goals. Her definition for inclusion have expanded within the years. Nowadays, her perspective for inclusion is that all children deserve the best possible education regardless of their needs. In some years from now, she is hoping to see children with special needs to spend most of their educational days in the gen. ed classroom. Because the importance for children to be part of the society begins in the general education classroom. Ms. Adal also believes that, since NCLB happened, a lot of special education students have gain more benefits in school.

The new law (ESSA) continues to require some annual testing for certain grades and students needing accommodations on tests can still receive them; however, states must limit to only 1 percent those students allowed to take the alternative tests typically reserved for students with cognitive deficits within the special education program. In the matter of opting out, the new law continues to remain silent, forcing the states to set guidelines in this area if they desire. Although assessments continue to be required as a way to monitor student progress, states can choose from a wider variety of tests, including nationally recognized tests. In addition, ESSA provides for funding to a select few states to explore new types of testing as well as funding for all states to audit their tests with a view towards reducing unnecessary testing.

In the United States, there is a continuing debate about how success should be measured. Many parameters can be used to evaluate program effectiveness. Since this program is based on how and if the youth applies the skills that were taught, if the youth enters post-secondary education and whether the youth is gainfully employed these parameters are very concrete. This will be measured by 90 day, 180 day and 365 day follow-up. Follow-up will consist of office visits, home visits, mailings and phone calls.

Which provided federal aid to low-income children with limited English speaking families. The government believed that in order to end the War on Poverty, it would have to aid schools in developing new and imaginative elementary and secondary school programs (Parkay, 2013). The education gap between one generation and another would end here.

With high stakes testing, it requires, states to use accommodation and alternative testing in order to allow states not to exclude students with special needs from taking any of the state’s test. Before

This summer I worked in New York City at Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), which is a non-profit organization for poverty-stricken children and families in Harlem, providing free support in the forms of parenting workshops, a pre-school program, three public charter schools, child-oriented health programs that serve approximately 13,705 children and 13,784 adults. The Harlem Children’s Zone Project has expanded the HCZ’s comprehensive system of programs to nearly 100 blocks of Central Harlem and aims to keep children on track throughout college and into the job market. The organization is made-up of about twenty two programs in total that ensure there are no gaps in-between one phase to the next. For instance if a student needs to take a year off before attending college, HCZ has created programs that will stick with the student during this time frame, in other words providing these students with a strong support group so they are held accountable to attend college in the future. The HCZ is “aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and

Consequently, I questioned whether the alternative education system adequately prepares these students for the modern world. Likewise, I have doubts that the DL system is superior to the traditional education system, as Caesar suggests. Onward, she mentions how the alternative system is cheaper and more inclusive, but there was no numerical evidence to support this claim. Personally, I believe the DL system may be too lenient because some youths need structure in their lives because routines can provide stability and thus motivations and incentives to succeed. Plus, the alternative education system does not reflect the real world consisting of flexible and changing market demands and emerging innovations. Thus, I believe students must adapt to a fixed system by finding pathways to make a system work for them, rather than already being handed a purified system. Nevertheless, I believe the existence of both systems is ideal because the DL system is still highly effective for a certain group of students, but a single education system can never be an optimal fit for every student as we all learn

Alternative schooling is an educational establishment that has a curriculum or ways of teaching that are non traditional such as a wide range of teaching styles. An alternative school can be either private or even public (i.e. charter, online and magnet schools). Some of these schools aren't offered in some school districts, while some like magnet, charter and online schools are usually completely online. This usually happens if the school district or state that a student is currently living in doesn’t have the proper funding to build an alternative schooling location. Some alternative schools may offer classes at night, which is helpful for students who work. Along with that some of alternative schools have flexible graduation requirements and give students the choice in what classes they want to take apposed to regular schools where you really don't have so much of a say in your classes.

The WIDA and ACCESS test are designed specifically for ELs and are beneficial when it comes to understanding the students proficiency levels, specific supports in different core content areas and the type of extra assistance needed for student success.

The educational system in the United States has gone through many changes over the last century. These changes are a part of a constant movement toward educational excellence for every child in this nation. One of the most recent acts placed on public school systems by the government is to create more accountability for schools in order to ensure that all children are receiving the proper education. Part of this mandate is that public schools will require students to take tests in order to gather information about their academic achievement. Although educators and administrators claim that the mandatory ability testing programs being initiated in America’s public schools will hold students and teachers accountable for academic

The intended beneficiaries of the policy are students in public schools. In addition, schools, teachers, and communities may improve as a result of these enhanced standards. The success or lack there of, of this policy is defined by the assessments students complete to measure AYP.

The youth engagement program has a multitude of resources within their program including, events or support for participants, partnerships, and grants. The many events open to students within the program are, restorative practices, reading/writing/math support, SAT prep, writing workshops, campus engagement events, FAFSA workshops, college/career conversations, career connecting, and post-secondary application support. In regards to partnerships held by the program, their main partner comes from a subcontract with the NSO along with, individuals and organizations with expertise in different programming elements (social workers, counselors, mentors, and those in trauma care), and mutually beneficial partnerships such as university-community relationships. Lastly, the programs grants include; $10,000 from united way for restorative practice training and $10,000 from ford for reading and writing tutoring.