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Welcome to the Concord SEPAC Web site

formerly known as Concord SPED PAC (Concord SpEdPAC)

and

Concord Carlisle SEPAC (CCSEPAC) Web site

Revere Beach Sand Castle contest, July 15, 2006

What's New?

We need your help. Are you interested in volunteering your time and energy to our SEPAC? Our special education laws and regulation requires that each school district create a district-wide parent advisory council offering membership to all parents of eligible students and other interested parties. In our school district, we have had an activity PAC for over 8 years. This year, however, many of our board members are resigning. We need parent volunteers for our PAC board and active members to keep our PAC up and running. If interested please contact Jessica Murphy, our special education director, (978) 341-2490, x8142, Jmurphy@colonial.net,Stefanie Cloutier, 978-369-7592, stefanieAC@comcast.net, and Liz Hopkinson, 978-287-5236, lhopkinson@verizon.net, both past PAC presidents.

We are changing our name from the "Concord SPED PAC" to Concord SEPAC and adding the Concord Carlisle Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (CCSEPAC), (pronounced C C C PAC.) The name change is to reflect the population we serve: Concord PreK-8 and Concord Carlisle Regional High School and beyond. Check back for our name change and upcoming announcements.

Wrightslaw has some summer time articles in their June 24, 2008 newsletter, titled: Summer School for Parents - Relax, Re-Evaluate, Prepare for Next School Year.

On April 11th the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued a revised Parent’s Notice of Procedural Safeguards. This is the link to the the Department’s memorandum, and contains a link to the revised Parent’s Notice in several languages. This is a link to the revised Parent’s Notice of Procedural Safeguards brochure (April 2008) .

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