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SPEDWatch is a grassroots, parent-driven,
nonprofit organization using the strategy of
nonviolent direct action to confront dysfunction
in our special education system and secure the
educational rights of schoolchildren with
disabilities.
"We have only one demand: that schoolchildren with special needs be given education that they are legally and morally entitled. No more. No less. No compromise."
Ellen M. Chambers, MBA
SPEDWatch Founder
SPEDWatch demonstrates outside the headquarters of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
NEWS
SPEDWatch meets with MHLAC
State refuses to take action on behalf of students
harmed by noncompliance
Shawsheen Valley Vo Tec High School denied
students to equal access to courses ·
MCAS: Students with special needs continue to
lose ground
Only 17% of Massachusetts third graders with
disabilities read proficiently
Massachusetts school districts routinely violate the educational rights of schoolchildren with special needs, and our Department of Elementary and Secondary Education refuses to stop it. Schools and families are forced into adversarial relationships while children suffer the lifelong consequences of needless academic, social and emotional failure