The Texas Education Agency has ruled in favor of an Houston ISD parent and advocate, who argued the district’s special education department failed to properly serve her daughter.
Jessica Campos formerly worked with local advocacy group Community Voices for Public Education and is a vocal opponent to the district’s state takeover. For more than two years, Campos said she has been pushing for HISD’s special education system to meet the needs of her daughter, who has dyslexia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
A committee with Campos and district administrators agreed that her daughrer needed to work in small groups due to her disability, Campos said. But instead of those accommodations, her daughter was sent to “team” centers, a hallmark of state-Superintendent Mike Miles’ reform, where some students receive extra intstruction at the end of class in large classrooms and converted libraries…