A plan to remedy financial mismanagement at a Montgomery County special education school immediately drew attacks from critics who said it does not go far enough to help students reclaim work-study funds that school officials withdrew from their bank accounts...http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/lawyer-method-of-repaying-special-ed-students-in-montgomery-is-insulting/2014/01/10/7d3e3b40-7a00-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
...In developing the proposal, schools officials did not confer with families...
...Rhonda Turner, whose son attended Rock Terrace, said she read about the proposal Friday with frustration. Communication with Montgomery officials, she said, has been a problem for months.
“These children worked hard for this,” Turner said. “They’re doing this to children with disabilities.”
Turner said her son, who has Down syndrome, worked for a time stuffing envelopes and shredding paper. Then he worked in Rock Terrace’s kitchen and an on-site bistro...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
The Washington Post: Lawyer: Method of repaying special-ed students in Montgomery is ‘insulting’
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Dianne Thornton,
DLA Piper,
Joshua Starr,
Rock Terrace School
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