Helpful Resources

Wrightslaw (http://www.wrightslaw.com/)
Parents, educators, advocates and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law and advocacy for children with disabilities.
Disability Rights California  (http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/pubs/PublicationsSERREnglish.htm)
Disability Rights California is a nonprofit agency that advances the human and legal rights of persons with disabilities. Parents and people with disabilities come to this website to solve disability-related problems. If your child (or you) have a disability and qualify for services, you can be eligible for one of their services.
California Content Standards  (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/)
Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
National Center and State Collaborative (“NCSC”)  (http://www.ncscpartners.org/)
The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) Assessment Consortium is a collection of more than 24 Partner and Affiliated states and five centers that have been working collaboratively since 2010 to develop an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards system aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Council of Parent, Attorneys and Advocates (“COPAA”)  (https://copaa.site-ym.com/)
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA) is an independent, nonprofit unparalleled peer-to-peer network of attorneys, advocates, parents and related professionals dedicated to protecting and enforcing legal and civil rights of students with disabilities and their families at the national, state and local levels.