We are very pleased to announce that Lulu.com, providers of our book publishing services, has chosen our book, What Every School Board Should Know About Special Education Compliance - California Edition, to include among an exclusive list of works that it promotes through Amazon.com.  This is highly complimentary of our work. Lulu.com has partnered with Amazon.com to carry select works chosen by Lulu.com reviewers.  We were pleased to receive notice that our ...

KPS4Parents founder, Nyanza Cook, stepped down as CEO and advocate in September 2006, remaining involved as the Chairperson of our Board of Directors.  Now, she's back part-time to support families of children with special needs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, as well as help provide national support with current CEO and advocate Anne Zachry to parents throughout the United States via phone, fax, web, and email. Parents seeking special ...

Writing IEP goals for behavioral issues can pose a particular challenge.  Unlike academic goals, which should be tied to State standards for academic performance and more easily lend themselves to measurable language, behavioral goals aren't tied to a pre-described set of criteria of what students should learn; at best, they relate to rules about what students should not do at school. Behavior has been poorly dealt with in our schools over ...

Addressing problem behaviors that interfere with a special education student's education is complicated by differences between the federal regulatory requirements and those created by the States.  Being in California, I have first-hand experience in trying to tease out the applicability of each type of intervention.  It has also been food for thought as I've looked to what is (and is not) going on in other States. As we've stated before, ...