California Statewide Task Force on Special Education Report ‘One System: Reforming Education to Serve all Students’

On March 9, 2015, the California Department of Education Statewide Special Education Task Force released a report calling for the state, local education agencies, and school districts to create a unified education system in which students with disabilities are first considered general education students. The task force recommendations are intended to create a system in which general education and special education systems, which are currently siloed, work together as one system to address the needs of all students as soon as those needs are apparent, from the time they are born through preschool and until they reach the age of . . .