Author: Patrick Hoover

Thankfully, the Maryland State Department of Education effort to decertify school therapists has been withdrawn (see previous blog posting for details). Occupational, Physical and Speech Language professionals are present throughout the State working every...

Patrick Hoover met with over 30 concerned parents to discuss their children’s legal rights under the IDEA. The Eastern Panhandle Autism Support group in Martinsburg, West Virginia, formed to help parents and caregivers’ frustrations...

The Whats and Hows of School Disciplinary Cases: Best Practices and Techniques . Friday May 2, 2008, at 11:00 am. The Education Law Section, with many thanks to Marjorie Just of the Legislation Committee,...

The Education Law Section, chaired by Patrick Hoover, has added a breakout session to the Annual Meeting & Law Day Celebration, to be held on Friday, May 2, 2008. Registration for the Annual Meeting...

Charlie, oldest of my three handsome sons and known to our faithful readers as Web Master to this site, was recently accepted at Xavier University in Ohio. Charlie is scheduled to begin at Xavier...

By now in the current school year, many parents have come to realize that their child is not doing well in school. Often times, this reality exists even with the help of an Individualized...

I don’t pretend to have hard statistics to back this up but I, along with others have experienced a sudden rise in the number of drug and alcohol related school expulsion this school year....

Thanks once again to Charlie Hoover our web site has undergone a transformation, one we believe will make it easier to use, more helpful in a number of ways and just better. We have...

The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) recently announced a welcome change to the daunting, all or nothing, pass/fail rule currently in place regarding the four part test all students must pass before receiving...