Lee's Summit R-7 School District

Parents upset over how school handled abuse complaints - KCTV5 ST. JOSEPH, MO (KCTV) - Parents are angry about what a St. Joseph, MO, boy is accused of doing to their kids and they're not happy with how the school handled it. Since September, three parents have filed police reports against the boy. A warning to viewers: this story involves details that are graphic in nature. Just this week, a little girl at Hozea Elementary School in St. Joseph told her mother a little boy had been pinching and touching her private area in the classroom and on the playground when the teachers weren't looking. "I want to know how it happened?" said the mother whose identity KCTV5 is concealing to protect her daughter. "Why were we not aware as parents that we were dropping our kids off to somewhere that's not safe and this could happen to them?" The mother said on Monday night she learned from friends there were accusations against a 5-year-old boy in her daughter'...

Here is what the OCR found in my son's case in 2007. They state twice that the District failed to provide some of the special education and related services identified in my son's IEP.  Based on the above, OCR determined the evidence did not establish that the District's failure to provide some of the special education and related services identified in your son's IEPs during the 2005-2006 school year materially limited your son's educational opportunities.  OCR has determined there is an insufficient factual basis to support a conclusion that the District's failure to fully implement your son's IEP materially limited his educational opportunities in violation of Section 504.

AutisticChick: What I saw I left the gym, I had to, because the music made me uncomfortable. I stood by the door.  I waited. I turned toward the door to the gym, and I saw a classmate burst through the door, an aide inches behind him. The aide grabbed a strap on his vest and stopped him cold. The student struggled. Aides thronged at the little windows. I know what they saw.  They didn't see someone asking to be taken for a walk. They didn't see him begging to have some space.  They saw an escape attempt. A noncompliant escape attempt. A student trying to outsmart the teachers, to get his way.  They saw someone who didn't understand the point of P.E. They saw a runner. He pulled away, and the aide pushed him back  through the gym door, shouting "In we go! In we go! In we go," his hands pulling and pushing as the student dug his heels in. Everyone else "encouraged" from the sidelines. I saw too much happening. I saw an apraxic struggle. I saw a nonverbal...

U.S. Departments of Education and Justice Release School Discipline Guidance Package to Enhance School Climate and Improve School Discipline Policies/Practices | U.S. Department of Education The U.S. Department of Education (ED), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), today released a school discipline guidance package that will assist states, districts and schools in developing practices and strategies to enhance school climate, and ensure those policies and practices comply with federal law. Even though incidents of school violence have decreased overall, too many schools are still struggling to create positive, safe environments. Schools can improve safety by making sure that climates are welcoming and that responses to misbehavior are fair, non-discriminatory and effective. Each year, significant numbers of students miss class due to suspensions and expulsions—even for minor infractions of school rules—and students of color and with disabilities are dispropor...

Cheating Probe Roils Philadelphia School System - WSJ.com Nearly 140 teachers and administrators in Philadelphia public schools have been implicated in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals, according to district officials who also said Wednesday that they expected to discipline or terminate several school-based employees over the next few weeks in connection with the allegations. The Pennsylvania attorney general's office also is conducting a criminal investigation into the allegations, according to a person familiar with the matter. Three principals were fired late last week as part of the probe, which grew out of a 2009 state analysis of questionable erasure patterns on test booklets on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment math and reading exams. The district, which wouldn't discuss the specific allegations, said those involved "violated basic testing integrity, ethical and moral standards." Enlarge Image Superintendent of the School District ...

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‘We don’t have the room’ | News | Lee's Summit Journal I think his real fear is that he can't educate these children any better than KC did and it will make the district look bad.  Lee's Summit has a history of under serving their student population that needs extra help. David McGehee’s presentation to the Lee’s Summit Economic Development Council about the ongoing school transfer issue featured a few laughs, some greater insight and a zinger directed at a high-level Missouri politician. McGehee spoke during the LSEDC’s quarterly luncheon Jan. 8 at the University of Central Missouri’s Summit Center. The superintendent of the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District made it clear during the presentation that there are better alternatives then the one currently facing school districts all across the state; the loss of accreditation and how it affects districts in the same or adjoining counties. Reciting numbers pulled from a district-sponsored survey of parents from the unac...