The 'Texas Transition and Employment Guide' can be found at the below link. This guide provides youth, young adults, parents and professional with secondary transition resources to facilitate a young person’s progress towards post-secondary goals to education, employment, and community living.
Texas Transition and Employment Guide
(Espanol)
The 588 Educational Cooperative coordinates special education services for 11 member school districts in the Big Bend Region of West Texas, including Marfa Schools. Students are afforded a wide range of instructional opportunities provided in the least restrictive environment and designed to meet individual student needs, as determined by the student’s Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committee.
The 588 Educational Cooperative employs a staff of highly qualified special education personnel who work collaboratively with each district’s general education staff to address the academic, functional, and behavioral needs of students with disabilities. Special Education services are designed as an integral support to each district’s general education curricular, instructional, and assessment program to provide individualized supports and services to students meeting eligibility requirements in one or more of the following areas: autism, deaf-blindness, auditory impairment, emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, learning disability, speech impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment, or non-categorical early childhood.
The Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process
Please enter in our District ID of 189901.
Director of Special Ed – Mesinda Llanez
704 W. Sul Ross Ave.
Alpine, TX79830
Phone: (432) 837-3315
Fax (432) 837-3573
Student Handbook Statement: English
Student Handbook Statement: Spanish
SB 139 Notice to Families (English version)
SB 139 Notice to Families (Spanish version)
Resources for Special Education
Procedural Safeguards — English
Procedural Safeguards — Spanish
For more information about Special Education and information related to SB139, please visit the TEA website by clicking here.
For more information about Delayed or Denied Evaluations & Compensatory Services click here.
Para más información de Evaluaciones Retrasadas o Denegadas & Servicios Compensatorios has click aqui.
About Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES)
The Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES) program, previously, the Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES) program is a one-time $1,500 online grant for parents/guardians of eligible students served by special education and who are enrolled in a Texas public school. Parents/guardians of eligible students can use the online accounts to shop the marketplace to obtain educational materials and resources such as textbooks, curriculum, or technology devices and/or services such as additional speech therapy, tutoring, or other specific services.
For a program overview, click here.
For the PDSES website, click here.
Acerca del Programa de Servicios de Educación Especial Dirigidos por los Padres
El programa de Servicios de Educación Especial Dirigidos por los Padres, anteriormente conocido como el programa de Servicios Suplementarios de Educación Especial (SSES) es una subvención única en línea de $1,500 para padres/tutores de estudiantes elegibles atendidos por educación especial y que están matriculados en una escuela pública de Texas. Los padres/tutores de estudiantes elegibles pueden usar las cuentas para ir de compras en el mercado en línea y obtener materiales y recursos educativos como libros, currículo o dispositivos tecnológicos, y/o servicios como terapia del habla adicional, tutoría u otros servicios específicos.
Para un resumen de servicios haga click aqui.
Para el sitio de web, click aqui.
Dyslexia Handbook and Links
The Special Education Information Center (SPEDTex) provides resources and interactive features for increasing family awareness of disabilities and special education processes, with the goal of improving partnerships between schools and families.
Contact information:
Phone: 1-855-773-3839
Email: inquire@spedtex.org