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...FIRST THING THIS BILL DOES is to make it necessary for the school to inform parents fully on any decisions regarding placement of their children in special classes. Like other provisions of this bill, this is one which may not impress people who have never been involved in trying to get a child in or out of a special class. The right of parents to decide in part what kind of an education their child receives should be obvious to most people. And yet this has not been obviously true in the past...
...trying to get an education for a child, but having to play a large institution's ball game. Past injustices can be seen very clearly by the way that the bill spells out step by step the mechanisms schools must now go through in notifying a parent of a placement decision...
...evaluation, to determine whether he or she needs special classes, the school must inform the parents within five days. Thirty days later, the school must provide the evaluation. All records must be made available to the parents. The Department of Education may then make recommendations about the child's placement. Parents who disagree with the recommendation have the opportunity to call for a reevaluation by different public evaluation clinics or by specialists...
Kiely's proposed plan would allow freshmen in good academic standing to take sophomore standing at the end of their freshman year. Sophomore standing is now open only to entering freshmen with three Advanced Placement credits...
Captain Michael H. Collier left the Castle--which he had entered early in the morning while protesters guarded the nearby University Placement building -- at 5 p.m. exactly, with a forceful police escort and B.U. vice-president Daniel Finn for added safety...