Advocates and Attorneys - can you help with this project for them?

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She is looking for a speaker on Special Education Law...

By video feed from one of the satellite classrooms, or in person in

/College Station...

Please reply directly to her at her e-mail or phone below.

Sincerely,

Guppy

Fett Gutierrez wrote:

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:38:36 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: I would like your input

To: " M. Guppy "

CC: Dionne Parrish

,

I e-mailed you earlier this month seeking your help to provide a workshop for

the / College Station area. I found out a little more information about

the facilities we will try to use. There are locations in Houston and The

Woodlands that are classrooms equipped with tv and video equipment to do a live

feed with a facility here in College Station. I need to ask more questions

about the individual facilities, but here is a complete list:

http://ttvn2.tamu.edu/home/site_ref.php?order=city & searchstr= & orga= & city= & addr= & \

sitename=

We desperately need to do a workshop for beginner / intermediate level parents

on knowing their rights with the school system and IEPs. This seems like a

first priority needed here as there are MANY parents in ISD having major

problems with the elementary schools. Can you help us find someone who would be

good for this and who would be willing to do a probably one-hour presentation

plus Q & A time at one of these facilities in Houston or The Woodlands to connect

with parents in / College Station? If there is a speaker fee, give me

some idea what to expect and we'll try to figure out how to cover it.

In the future, we hope to do regular workshops using these facilities where your

groups can attend where the speaker is and our community can participate via the

video feed. We need to do one or two to work out the kinks of the system, but

there is the potential to reach many more people if you notice the long list of

cities that are part of this communications network. This will be in connection

with the Family Support Network which is affiliated with Texas A & M University,

however TAMU will not be listed as a sponsor of these events.

Gutierrez

gutierrez_jessica@...

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