California Statewide Special Education Taskforce Published Progress Report on Achieving ONE SYSTEM

By Teresa Anderson, Public Policy Director, The Arc/UCP California Collaboration

In 2013 the California Statewide Special Education Task Forced convened to examine California’s complex system for serving students with disabilities, and to make recommendations to the State Board of Education, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and the California Department of Education, related to improving the persistent poor outcomes for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and K-12 students with disabilities. In 2015, the Special Ed Taskforce publish a report detailing all their findings and recommendations for system reform. Among the Task Force’s recommendations was an overarching conclusion that California’s special education system would improve if general education and special education worked seamlessly together as one coherent system designed to address the needs of all students.

The recent report published by the California Department of Education California’s Progress Toward Achieving ONE SYSTEM: Reforming Education to Serve ALL Students provides an update on the Task Force recommendation and the progress toward creating a seamless system that is aimed at better serving students with disabilities.

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