Special Education/COVID-19 Update #20: August 6 Directors' Dialog; Website Update

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August 5, 2020

Special Education/COVID-19 Update #20

Special Education Directors' Dialog 9:30 a.m., Thursday, August 6

For our first Directors' Dialog we will discuss Governor Walz's announcement regarding the plan for return to school in the fall and the latest Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) guidance including requirements for 1:1 services.

This Directors’ Dialogue event is scheduled for Thursday, August 6, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Register for the August 6 Directors' Dialog on the Zoom website. Live CART captioning is available from our partners at Paradigm/Veritext; access live captioning on the Streamtext website.

 

COVID-19 Information on Website Updated

The list of resources on COVID-19 and special education posted to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) COVID-19 Updates and MDE Special Education webpages has been updated. MDE staff will continue to collect questions and provide answers in these documents, which we plan to update Tuesdays and Thursdays as needed. Notification of these updates will be via this special education directors' listserv, and may appear in communication with superintendents and charter school leaders.

Before contacting MDE staff with questions on this topic, please refer to these compiled documents to see if your questions have been answered. Note that you may need to refresh your Internet browser and/or clear your browser cache to see the very latest versions of these documents. Thank you for all you do for students receiving special education services in Minnesota.

Update to special education resources document: