DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for disabled students

[ehrnst]

Jesus's smug little hall monitor has been busy.

The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities as part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate regulations it deems superfluous.

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services wrote in a newsletter Friday that it had “a total of 72 guidance documents that have been rescinded due to being outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective — 63 from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and 9 from the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA).” The documents, which fleshed out students’ rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act, were rescinded Oct. 2.

A spokeswoman for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos did not respond to requests for comment.

Advocates for students with disabilities were still reviewing the changes to determine their impact. Lindsay E. Jones, the chief policy and advocacy officer for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, said she was particularly concerned to see guidance documents outlining how schools could use federal money for special education removed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/10/21/devos-rescinds-72-guidance-documents-outlining-rights-for-disabled-students/

[mountain grammy]

1. Any idea on how long it took to put these guidelines together?

Years of painstaking data gathering and work flushed in minutes.
Like when the decades in the making carpal tunnel guidelines were finally reaching approval, only to be squashed in the first year of W's administration by none other than the spawn of Scalia, Eugene.

That's what the GOP does, destroy years of work and progress that would improve lives.

http://www.jimgilliam.com/2003/11/scalia_corruption_and_carpal_tunnel.php

[blondebanshee]

2. How do these people sleep at night???

[mikeysnot]

3. very comfortably

when you are worth billions....

plutocracy.