Web Highlights: Stimulus Transparency, Controversial Restraint Technique, et

• The stimulus package bolsters special needs education, but it also requires increased transparency for spending. The Journal, looks at one method of tracking IDEA program progress in Maryland.
  
• In a disaster, what will your special needs riders and their families do? In Navajo County, Ariz., police and human services officials are helping to come up with plans for evacuation and shelter.
• A California judge dropped a case against a school district alleging a teacher's use of the "prone restraint" -- where the student is held face down -- left an autistic boy with a broken nose, bruises and scratches.
• A school in Canada gives children with special needs a classroom designed to engage their senses.

Special Needs Highlights

• They may not ride the school bus, but these special needs students are getting help from their school. The Miami-Herald tells the story of the Merrick Educational Center "the only public school in Miami-Dade County that works with homebound, hospitalized or special needs children who are unable to attend a traditional school. The school goes from pre-K to 12th grade."
  
• It's not what we think of when we talk about a Special Needs Rodeo. (We'll be posting the results from Special Needs Roadeo in Indianapolis soon, we promise). But the California High School Roadeo association is letting some special needs students lasso and ride life-size "broncos" and "horses" hand rocked by volunteered.
• Another special needs Rodeo of the same breed is looking for pardn'rs to volunteer for the event.