<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Breaking!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“After interviews and monitoring visits with parents, school administrators and state officials, the federal investigation found that the Texas Education Agency effectively capped the statewide percentage of students who could receive special education services and incentivized some school districts to deny services to eligible students.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Full article here: </span><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/federal-special-education-monitoring-report/">https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/federal-special-education-monitoring-report/</a></p><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div>---</div><div>Liz Wisecarver, Director - sent from my iPhone</div><div>NFB-NEWSLINE Texas</div><div><br></div><div>346-704-0145</div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="mailto:lwisecarver@nfbtx.org">lwisecarver@nfbtx.org</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.</div></div></body></html>