{"id":28317,"date":"2017-02-22T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tashorg.wpengine.com\/?p=28317"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:52:24","slug":"contact-osers-to-help-protect-the-rights-of-students-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tash.org\/contact-osers-to-help-protect-the-rights-of-students-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert | Contact OSERS to Help Protect the Rights of Students with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Ruth Ryder at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and help\u00a0protect the rights of students with disabilities!<\/p>\n<p>On February 16, TASH, on behalf of its members, sent Ruth Ryder, Acting Director of OSERS, a letter expressing concern\u00a0with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2017\/01\/03\/2016-31838\/applications-for-new-awards-personnel-development-to-improve-services-and-results-for-children-with\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announcement<\/strong><\/a> from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the January 3, 2017 Federal Register regarding personnel preparation grants.<\/p>\n<p>OSEP\u2019s recent call for proposals for personnel preparation funds under CDFA 85.325K has re-defined students \u201cwith the most intensive needs\u201d to include a very broad range of individuals (including children\/youth with dyslexia, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, etc.). This will seriously limit teacher training scholarships for educators who want to work with the children and youth that TASH supports.\u00a0 In addition, the Request for Proposal suggests that there are children who cannot be included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c.ymcdn.com\/sites\/tash.site-ym.com\/resource\/resmgr\/docs\/Letter_to_Ruth_Ryder_-_Febru.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to access the full letter sent to Ruth Ryder. Please use our information to write your own letters to Ruth Ryder. Letters can be mailed to the following address:<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Ryder, Acting Director<br \/>\nOffice of Special Education Programs<br \/>\nOffice of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services<br \/>\nU.S. Department of Education<br \/>\n400 Maryland Avenue SW<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20202-7100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Ruth Ryder at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and help\u00a0protect the rights of students with disabilities! On February 16, TASH, on behalf of its members, sent Ruth Ryder, Acting Director of OSERS, a letter expressing concern\u00a0with the announcement from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the January 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[55,362,141],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}