May 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
Fresno Unified School District Superintendent Michael Hanson said he never told a special education student's parent that he would have the district pay his legal fees if he fired his attorney. Hanson spoke to California Watch on May 4 – the day it published a story ...
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May 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Days before Pablo Lopez learned that his son, a 14-year-old special education student in the Fresno Unified School District, would be recommended for expulsion, Superintendent Michael Hanson asked for a “father-to-father” meeting. As they sat in Hanson’s white pickup truck,...
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May 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
After failing for the eighth straight year to meet service delivery targets for special education, Los Angeles Unified School District has begun interviewing staff to understand why records indicate thousands of students with disabilities are not receiving their prescribed services. The effort...
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December 16, 2011, 12:05 AM
By the time Krista McGhee pulled her son from school in the Riverside Unified School District, she said the fourth-grader had taken to hiding under his desk, been bitten by his classmates and been bruised by a teacher's aide trying to restrain him. McGhee's son, who has Asperger's...
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