COVID-19 & Online Learning Risks
From Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, Arizona’s Education Lawyers
First, it is important to distinguish between distance learning an online learning. Not all distance learning is online. Online learning is learning on the computer; it is one aspect of distance learning. Distance learning can be on-line – synchronous or recorded – and it can be papers and projects, audio, or anything remote that is not brick-and-mortar.
Risk of on-line instruction revolve around…
From Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC
Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity or expression (masculine, feminine, other) is different from their sex (male, female) at birth. Gender identity refers to one’s internal understanding of one’s own gender, or the gender with which a person identifies. Gender expression is a term used to describe people’s outward presentation of their gender. Gender identity and sexual orientation are different facets of identity. Everyone has a gender identity and a…
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Lori Kirsch-Goodwin, Esq. and Hope N. Kirsch, M.A.Ed., Esq.
Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch, PLLC
8900 East Pinnacle Peak Rd., Suite 250
Scottsdale, Arizona 85255
(480) 585-0600
www.azspecialeducationlawyers.com
All children with disabilities, including children with disabilities who are homeless children or are wards of the State – and children with disabilities attending private schools – regardless of the severity of their disabilities, and who are in need of special education and related services, must…
In Arizona, a “child with disability” is defined as “a child who is at least three years but less than twenty-two years of age, who has been evaluated [pursuant to Arizona law] and found to have at least one of the following disabilities and who, because of the disability, needs special education and related services[1]:…
Governor Ducey issued Executive Order 2020-51 today, July 23, 2020, ARIZONA: OPEN FOR LEARNING, allowing each school district and charter school to make its own decisions for delivering educational services, whether in-person / brick & mortar and/or distance learning, and that schools must provide distance learning on the first day of their regular school year calendar even if they delay in-person school. If schools do not return to physical buildings for teacher-led insruction, they MUST…