Williamson, Inc. hosted its second Policy Talks of 2022 at the Columbia State Community College Williamson Campus Friday morning. The panel featured members of Tennessee’s state legislature. State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson and state Reps. Glen Casada, Sam Whitson and Todd Warner discussed Gov. Bill Lee’s recently unveiled “student-based funding formula” plan aimed at […]
PHILIPSBURG – A special educational funding policy is currently in an advanced stage of development and should be completed this year. Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (ECYS) Minister Rodolphe Samuel told MPs last Friday that the first working draft of the directive has been presented to key stakeholders, both internally and externally, for their feedback […]
damirkudisch / iStock The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has lifted its refund policy for the organization’s annual meeting after an outcry from would-be conference attendees on social media. Those who no longer want to attend the meeting can request a refund of the registration fee, the organization announced today. Neuroscience 2021 was planned as a […]
Experts in the fields of people with disabilities and education have called for the effective implementation of national inclusive education policies. They also called for the implementation of other international and national conventions on the rights of people with disabilities in the country. They called on Sunday during this year’s Global Inclusive Education Virtual Summer […]
PUNE: Schools for disabled children are calling on the government to develop an education policy for them so that their education, which was interrupted by the pandemic, can be resumed. You have pointed out that online education is difficult for these children and proper education is more like therapy for them. Since the beginning of […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Pandemic or no pandemic, national special education policies need to be improved to cater to children with special needs who are among the most vulnerable in the community. Dr. Hasnah Toran, Associate Professor, Center of Community Education & Wellbeing, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, said there should be better links with post-secondary education children can […]
“As well as the reasoning was meant, it was not an approved exception,” he said. “It made us aware of the need to be more consistent in the way we clarified and monitored the mask requirement. If there is any difference this year, it is that the policy is followed as it is written. “ […]
Scenario: Direct support employees in the daily program with special needs are exposed to Covid by a fully vaccinated family member in their home. A) He is vaccinated against Covid. He calls at work, tells his boss that he has been exposed to Covid. The boss tells him to report to work because he’s fully […]
PANAJI: Goa is now one of the few states in the country that offers a BEd program in special education that is also supported by the government so that students can complete it for a subsidized fee. With the start of the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) in the state, the program is […]
Time and again, people with disabilities have been used as scapegoats by the current political regime to demonstrate benevolence and earn vanity points by evoking feelings of compassion and charity in the larger gullible Indian population. Be it through the spread of stigmatizing terminology like divyangjan, the abrupt decision to award the title on a […]
A Colorado mother oversees an independent custody group “Transparency” in its approach to educational equity, which the Douglas County Board of Education on Tuesday likened to controversial, critical racial theory. Rebels against the attempt. “There’s no need to be more transparent about fundamentally flawed policies,” said Deborah Flora, founder and president of Parents United America, […]
Why listen to scientists and experts when you can choose the brain of a little boy who lives down the street. Ontarians have learned to have no expectations of Premier Doug Ford’s pandemic press conferences. But on June 2nd, the politician managed to surprise even those of us who thought we had seen it all, […]
