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 Report #054-2008  -  April 2, 2008 - Wednesday afternoon
 
BREAKING NEWS
AB 1768 SPECIAL EDUCATION BILL PASSES ASSEMBLY EDUCATION COMMITTEE - WOULD REINSTATE "STAY PUT" PROVISION DURING FAIR HEARINGS
 
SACRAMENTO (CDCAN) - AB 1768 by Assemblymember Noreen Evans (Democrat - Santa Rosa) dealing with special education due process hearings "stay put" provision, easily passed the Assembly Education Committee this afternoon.  The bill now heads for hearing in the Assembly Human Services Committee.  The hearing for that bill in Assembly Human Services, chaired by Assemblymember Jim Beall (Democrat - San Jose)  is likely on April 15 (Tuesday), at 1:30 PM at the State Capitol in Room 437.
 
The bill, supported by many parents of children with special needs, including those with autism, would reinstate state law that would require local school districts to continue to provide early intervention services to a child with special needs who is no longer eligible to receive those services and there is a dispute to continue similar services under a preschool program.
The bill would require continuation of those services until the dispute in a a fair hearing process has been resolved.
See later CDCAN Report later today for more details.
 
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