District News

CAC Comment on PAUSD Equity Plan

March 15, 2017
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March 13, 2017

To: Members of the PAUSD School Board, Superintendent McGee and Dr. Castellon:

The Palo Alto Community Advisory Committee for Special Education (CAC) wholeheartedly supports inclusion of students with disabilities in PAUSD’s Equity Plan. We remind you that at this time, the CAC has not […]

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Special Ed Review – Final Report and CAC Response

December 7, 2016
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The final report of the PAUSD Special Education Review by Hehir and Associates has been released, and the Palo Alto CAC has issued a response. See below for documents.

This review affirms many of the issues and concerns we articulated previously, and surveys of teachers and administrators are […]

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Middle School bullying case renews concerns over district’s response

November 8, 2016
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VIDEO REPORT: Palo Alto Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson, Editor Jocelyn Dong and education reporter Elena Kadvany discuss the Palo Alto school district’s handling of the repeated bullying of a special-education middle-school student.

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Unity Day 2016 – Recap from PAUSD

October 28, 2016
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Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) students across the school district recently participated in a variety of meaningful activities to appreciate and celebrate diversity, kindness, inclusion and respect on Unity Day, a national event when schools and communities come together against bullying. October is National Bullying […]

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Board of Education Goals for the 2016-17 Academic Year

September 5, 2016
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Superintendent McGee presented revised Board of Education Goals for the 2016-17 Academic Year on August 23, 2016

Revised the District Goals 2016-2017 including new Goal #8: “Develop a systems based work plan to address recommendations in forthcoming Special Education Program Review Report”
Intermediate […]

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PAUSD Special Education Review – Preliminary Findings & Recommendation

June 15, 2016
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PAUSD Special Education Review – Preliminary Findings & Recommendation

June 15, 2016

The Preliminary Findings and Recommendation from the Review of Special Education conducted by Tom Herir & Associates are now available.

Harvard Review Preliminary Findings

The review team visited our district, reviewed student-level data and […]

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Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum Committee

March 17, 2016
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Executive Summary for March 8, 2016, Board Meeting:

“In the Education Services weekly of Friday, February 26, 2016, we presented a draft charge and parameters for a Distributed Counseling Committee.  Staff strongly endorses the concepts and plan presented, as it would ideally lead to identical, or at least […]

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Special Education Review by Thomas Hehir

January 30, 2016
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PAUSD – Review of Special Education Conducted by Thomas Hehir and Associates LCC

Information on the Proposals for the 2015 Review of Special Education of Palo Alto Unified School District to be conducted by Thomas Hehir and Associates LLC:  Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Phase 1 took place in […]

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CAC response to OCR Report on Bullying

February 15, 2013
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CAC-Special Education Statement in response to the recent OCR decision and Resolution Agreement under the ADA and Section 504

Statement presented by Palo Alto CAC at PAUSD School Board meeting, February 12, 2013

As a community, we are committed to responding appropriately to harassment, including bullying.

The […]

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