Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 12, 2007
Empowering Education Advocates
Forum Column - By Areva D. Martin - For foster children who have special needs, determining who has the right to make decisions about their education is often a bureaucratic nightmare.
By Areva D. Martin
When a child is having difficulties with grades, peers or teachers, who is there to notice and to intervene? What if the child has special needs and requires extra assistance or other school-based services? Who speaks up for him or her? If a child is disciplined at school for one reason or another, who is usually called first? Parents.
But parental guidance...
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