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Our teachers for the blind and visually impaired are struggling in so many counties trying to serve our kids...sometimes carrying caseloads of 40, 50+ kids at a time.  By transferring the responsibility for administering state funds that support teachers for the visually impaired to the Dept. of Ed. ....school divisions will receive more money that could be spent on special education and would have to establish a maximum instructional caseload size for teachers of the visually impaired.

Remember right now Visually Impaired is the ONLY special education category that does not have a maximum caseload for teachers...and the way it is worded does not specify who has the responsibility of setting those.

The more they hear from us...as parents...the more it will make an impact....if you have not mailed, emailed or faxed in your comments PLEASE DO SO.  Also please consider going to one of the remaining public comment forums...so far there has been at least 3 people who have addressed this particular issue during the public comment forums...2 parents in Chesterfield and one teacher in Norfolk....but that is not nearly enough!  If you have an opportunity to attend one of the public comment forums listed below it is a wonderful opportunity to express why this is so important.

It is very important for the citizens of Virginia to express their views to state and local officials and to their elected representatives.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW the comment that the Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired sent to the Virginia Department of Education addressing the maximum instructional caseload size for Teachers of the Blind and Vision Impaired in the proposed "Regulations Governing Special Education Programs for Children with Disabilities in Virginia (April 2008)."