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7-29-20 Letter from the SpEAC Executive Board:
In the interest of ensuring the unique concerns for our children and young adults are considered, we have communicated with Dr. David Tate, Director of Special Education, and requested an additional SpEAC meeting for August 10, 2020 from 6-7:00pm. Our agenda is to hear the detail around the re-opening plan as it relates to the special abilities/special needs population. Dr. Tate has been working closely with the school board, Dr. Scott McCartney and the CST teams to prepare for our students’ return to school and remote learning environments where appropriate. There are a lot of questions and not all of them can be answered right now, but we’re hoping by the time of the meeting more can be clarified. Please bear in mind that as always when in our meetings,individual IEPs will not be discussed. Dr. Tate will make himself available for individualized plans. He assured us of this yesterday and it’s likely that many of you have already talked with him.
Kimmie Smith (Co-Chair/VP, 2020-2021,) and I had a conversation with Dr. Tate yesterday and explained to him our agenda for the meeting. We are asking for you to submit your questions in advance so that Dr. Tate can be sure to answer them during our special “town hall” style Zoom meeting and not need to get back to us. Our goal is to leave no questions unanswered as we make the crucial decision to send our children back into school buildings. It’s imperative that we all demonstrate respect as we hold this discussion which can certainly be charged with emotion and worry. Our goal is to have a productive meeting that will provide details and insights that go far deeper than any public discussion we’ve seen on social media, the school board meeting (7/28) or the Q & A session scheduled for this Thursday night.
As you may know, there are two active SpEAC members on the school board who are also working to advocate for our children & young adults in addition to the entire population of students in the district, but this meeting with Dr. Tate will be entirely about our students so we encourage all concerned to attend. Better yet, if you know someone who has a child who receives additional support or needs to, please invite them to join. Our community is welcoming, supportive and resourceful. The larger SpEAC is the better and the louder our voice when advocating. Hope to see you there!
Please direct your questions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The Executive board of SpEAC will compile the questions and present them to Dr. Tate by Wednesday, August 5th.
Sincerely,
Amy Barton
2020-2021 SpEAC President
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