Community Accountability Forum

press release: Tues. April 16, 7:00 pm First Unitarian Society, 900 Univ. Bay Drive. Community Accountability Forum: Panel on MMSD Policy, Training, and Practice for Staff/Student Contact, Restraints, and IEPs.

Madison Public School Families! Join us for a question and answer session on the policy, training and practice that governs when and how Madison Metropolitan school staff may make physical contact with school children, the impact of such contact and the process for how students qualify for receiving special education services through an Individual Education Plan (IEP).

Light refreshments will be provided. Working on childcare. If you need a ride please shoot Brandi Grayson a message.

Please submit your questions in advance in the comment section and please invite all parents and interested community members to attend.

FACILITATORS:

Brandi Grayson, executive director, Urban Triage

Matthew Braunginn, senior associate, UW-Madison

PANELISTS

Dr. Angie Hicks, principal, James C. Wright Middle School

Jasmine Zapata, pediatrician, MD, MPH

M. Adams, co-executive director, Freedom Inc.

Michael Jones, special education teacher, Blackhawk Middle School

Brian Holmquist, coordinator of Intensive Support and Critical Responses, MMSD

Tray Turner, educational resource officer, MPD

Jeff Spitzer Reznick, civil rights attorney

Hosted by Urban Triage, First Unitarian Church, the Community Response Team and members of the Building Capacity to Protect Black Children Group