Blog Archive 2020

As part of ongoing COVID-19 response efforts, yesterday the Washington Health Benefit Exchange opened a time-limited, extended enrollment opportunity for customers who have lost health coverage during the public health emergency. Typically, customers losing coverage mid-year have 60 days before and after their coverage end date to sign up through Washington Healthplanfinder. During COVID, customers have reported […]

This is a summary of Reopening Washington Schools 2020: Special Education Guidance. It will help families of students with disabilities know what to expect when schools reopen. It will also help families make decisions for their students. The information has strategies for learning online, in person or a mix of both. Planning for Special Education […]

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and WAC 392-172A, along with related RCW, require school districts to provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities ages 3-21, and for OSPI to ensure that provision of FAPE through general supervisory authority, including the use of monitoring, dispute resolution, technical assistance, and corrective […]

I am requesting your immediate help with releasing $21.2 million in federal CARES Act funds to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). For reasons that are unclear, the governor's budget office has withheld OSPI’s 10 percent share of the $216 million in K-12 emergency relief awarded to Washington. That money is urgently […]