Change Diploma System for Special Education? (KY)
Special education programs identify possible therapies and establish individual instructional goals for students. But when many of those students finish high school, they don’t graduate with a diploma, but a certificate of completion.
“But if you choose that non-academic route, your child when they graduate high school, they do not get a diploma. They get a certificate,” says Democratic Senator Dennis Parrett of Elizabethtown.
“If your child is a senior at Bryan Station High School, and they completed this curriculum that was set out before them, then I believe that they deserve a diploma. It can say alternative diploma. I’m fine with that, but they deserve a diploma. That’s all this is about.”
via WFPL News | Kentucky Lawmaker Seeks to Change Diploma System for Special Education.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.