Your Thoughts?

As many of you know, roughly 1.5 years ago the Amherst Special Education Department underwent two reviews from outside agencies. The PCG and CPI survey and analysis identified strengths and areas of improvement for the District.

The PCG Report provided an analysis of the Special Education services as well as how parents were feeling about the process and their respective involvement. This report looked at many things, and SEPAC reviewed this in detail providing the Amherst Regional School Committee with feedback on areas that we felt strongly reflected the parents we were hearing from in the Special Education Community. The other report, the CPI report looked at the use of restraints within the district as well as techniques and training surrounding de-escalation and restraints and also provided some useful insight into this process. SEPAC will continue to advocate and monitor the findings in these reports and continue to provide parent feedback regarding both positive and negative experiences from parental perspectives regarding Special Education services here in the District.

We want to hear from you about your experience to date since these reviews were conducted. Please take a minute to provide feedback to SEPAC and follow this link to a TWO minute survey. This is not intended to replicate the previous evaluations, but provide a mechanism to families that we can monitor and evaluate and thereby provide parental input into systemic changes in special education within the District.

Please take a minute and tell us your thoughts !

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/68NBVV8

Thank you, Melissa Paciulli SEPAC Co-President