Federal law requires public schools to seek out, evaluate, identify and provide services to children with disabilities, including children with serious emotional disturbances. In Adam Lanza’s case, apparently, Newtown’s schools did not.
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Op-Ed: The Sandy Hook failure
Federal law requires public schools to seek out, evaluate, identify and provide services to children with disabilities, including children with serious emotional disturbances. In Adam Lanza’s case, apparently, Newtown’s schools did not.
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Report on Adam Lanza had so much ‘blame the mother’
The Newtown school district should have done more to counsel Adam Lanza’s mother about his disabilities.
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Op-Ed: Report on Adam Lanza had so much ‘blame the mother’
The Newtown school district should have done more to counsel Adam Lanza’s mother about his disabilities.
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Newtown shooter: Report finds failure to address ‘a cascade’ of problems
There were many red flags in Adam Lanza’s life in the years before he killed 20 elementary students in Sandy Hook, according to a report released Friday by Connecticut’s child advocate. Here are four things the state watchdog agency says should be learned from an examination of Lanza’s life.
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CT senators take new aim at gun control
Washington — A year after a modest proposal to change gun laws failed in the Senate, Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have switched tactics.
They plan to introduce a bill that would forbid anyone under a temporary restraining order from owning a gun.
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Op-ed: CT shouldn’t rush to offer more mental health care
The seeming ongoing rush to increase mental health services in the state, after the Newtown shooting, is ill-advised.
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Connecticut General Assembly passes bipartisan gun bill
In emotional back-to-back debates, the Connecticut Senate and House overwhelmingly voted for one of the nation’s most comprehensive gun laws Wednesday and Thursday, a long-awaited response to one of the nation’s worst mass shootings, the Sandy Hook school massacre. The Democrat-dominated legislature passed the sweeping measure with significant Republican support, a rare bipartisan gesture on […]