[nfbmi-talk] another accessable doc from lipton interview

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(Letter to Lipton from MDE on systemic complaint from pdf)

 

 

 

Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (District 27) 

Table with 2 columns and 5 rowsFrom: Keesler, Venessa (MDE) <KeeslerV at michigan.gov> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:25 AM To: Rep. Ellen Cogen Lipton (District 27); Heidi Zabik Cc: Flanagan, Mike (MDE); Larvick, Wendy (MDE) Subject: EAA special education complaint Table endRepresentative Lipton 

MDE staff from the Office of Special Education and our legislative liaison, Wendy Larvick, will be working with you on 

your complaint. Outside of that formal complaint process, however, we want to assure you that we are reaching out to 

the EAA to help provide additional training and information to improve their processes in this area, ideally before the 

start of this next school year. The director of our Office of Special Education, Eleanor White, has been meeting with the 

individual hired by the EAA to work with special education throughout the year, and has recommended that we 

extend/expand our meetings to include building-level administrators to make sure all of those individuals are fully 

briefed on process, protocol and expectations regarding services for students with disabilities. Ensuring that the EAA 

has the support they need in order to provide high-quality special education services is important to MDE. We believe 

that working through multiple channels will help them improve their special education delivery and support strong 

outcomes for students with disabilities. 

Thank you 

Venessa Keesler 

Venessa A. Keesler, Ph.D. 

Deputy Superintendent, Education Services 

Michigan Department of Education 

keeslerv at michigan.gov 

Fax: 517-335-1186 

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