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IPUL's E-News for August 30, 2024

Here are the highlights of our upcoming events and recent activity online. Not everything is included due to timeliness.

If an advertised event already took place, we've left it off. 

IPUL Closed for Labor Day

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Idaho Makes Important Change to

Special Education Criteria

Ryan Cantrell

The State Board of Education made a one-word change in the state’s special education manual Wednesday.


The change could help hundreds, or possibly thousands, of Idaho students with disabilities, who have been deprived of the support they should have received under federal law.


...“We literally had to change one word, from an ‘and’ to an ‘or,’” said chief deputy superintendent Ryan Cantrell, a former special education teacher in the rural Bruneau-Grand View School District.


Full Story at this link.

Happy Birthdays, Heather and Bill!

Happy Birthday to IPUL's artistic visionary, Heather!

Happy Birthday Heather

Happy Birthday to IPUL's tech genius, Bill!

Happy Birthday - Me

August 2024: Back to School Tips

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View the video on our website

Back to School Tips and Tricks

NO REGISTRATION NEEDED!


For August 2024 - Join Allison and Melissa for a quick, short video discussing tips to make going back to School easier for your children!

Contact Idaho Parents Unlimited!


The best method to reach us for assistance is through our website:  

https://ipulidaho.org/connect-with-us/ . You can also shoot us a question using the abbreviated version of that form at the bottom of every page on our website, although we may need to get more information from you.


We monitor our intake phone line (208-342-5884) during the workday, and will try to respond to any request there within 24 hours. We use an automated intake phone system, so you will be leaving a message. (Please be sure the number you are leaving us can accept text or voice messages.)


For questions that are not about something in our scope of work, you can still leave a phone message as above, send the question to the form on our website, or shoot us an email at parents@ipulidaho.org.


We keep our website updated with new events and maintain a presence on Facebook, and Instagram

IPUL's programs are funded in part through grants and contracts with the following:
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Programs and services offered by Idaho Parents Unlimited are supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education (H328M200033) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Affordable Care Act Family to Family Health Information Center (H84MC12896), opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions of either department, endorsement is not assumed