Special Education Task Force

Created by the 2021 Annual Meeting of Delegates

The 2021 delegates approved the following statements.

That the MTA to create a Task Force on Special Education to look at the feasibility of creating an organizing initiative and potential legislation around the following topics:

• Gather information about the staffing patterns of special education teachers, working conditions and the size of their caseloads.
• Research Child Find.
• Investigate inequalities along disability, racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines.
• Develop a toolkit for local associations to use in bargaining for professionally certified special education staff.
• Create and distribute a toolkit for parents/guardians to clarify the special education process and their parental rights.
• Create a toolkit for parents/guardians to be able to locate professional support(s) such as an advocate.
• Foster collaboration and coalition work between SpEdPac and the MTA.

Co-Chairs: Sarah Bol and Stephanie Ponte
Contact: MTAGovernance with questions regarding this task force.