From the Virginia Commission on Youth, two requests for feedback from parents and caregivers, educators, and other professionals:
Special Education Dispute Resolution Study
Families and Professionals Interested in Special Education – Share your experience with dispute resolution by filling out this survey!
Survey Link: https://tinyurl.com/mja3398x
The Commission on Youth (https://vcoy.virginia.gov/), a bipartisan legislative commission of the Virginia General Assembly, is conducting a study on how to improve Virginia’s special education dispute resolution system. The Commission retained the services of Special Education Solutions, LLC (SES) (https://spedsolutions.com/), a leading expert in special education compliance, training, and dispute resolution to assist with this study and survey.
Your perspective as a parent, agency professional, attorney, advocate, teacher, or other role will be crucial as the Commission begins to develop recommendations for this study. The Commission is eager to hear from you.
This survey uses Google Forms. Some workplaces may not allow access to Google Forms. If that is the case, the survey respondent may need to access the survey from a home computer, library computer, or cell phone. The Commission encourages groups with members who have vision impairments or need a translation to assist those members in completing the survey.
The survey is estimated to take 10-25 minutes to complete, depending on the number of questions you choose to answer. The survey will close on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.
If you have any issues accessing the survey, please direct those questions to Deusdedi Merced, Managing Member, SES, dmerced@spedsolutions.com. Your responses to the survey questions are completely confidential.
Relief of Custody Study
The Virginia Commission on Youth is accepting public comment on the 2024 Draft Recommendations for the Use and Impact of Relief of Custody on Care and Support of Youth. Provided below is a link to the draft recommendations for this study:
Public comment must be received by 5:00 p.m. Thursday, November 21, 2024. Public comments received by the deadline will be provided to the Commission for consideration at the November 25th Commission meeting at 10:30 a.m. at Senate Room A in the General Assembly Building. In person public comment will be received at this meeting as well. Please submit comments by email to aatkinson@vcoy.virginia.gov.
