Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

On November 16th, 2006, a Tennessee Legislative study group met to review and discuss legislation sponsored last spring by Senator Ketron and Representative Tom DuBois. That legislation failed to become law, but if it had parents might have found navigating Tennessee’s special education programming less challenging and children might have been better protected. [...]

Earlier this year the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education (OSEP) advised Tennessee that its then-current eligibility criteria for Specific Learning Disabilities was in conflict with federal regulations. The previous Tennessee policy read, in part:
“Children who perform in classroom academics in a manner commensurate with expected academic standards at the child’s grade [...]