PLEASANTON, CA, June 13, 2023 — Everybody Advocate™, a nonprofit for the support and advancement of special education, today announced they will be offering free second opinions to California families denied reading intervention due to an alleged systemic failure by the California Department of Education (CDE) to find students eligible for specially designed instruction. The decision comes in response to a refusal by the CDE’s special education Complaint Resolution Unit (CRU) to correct the absence of a checkbox for reading fluency on a statewide eligibility form for special education.

PLEASANTON, CA, USA, June 1, 2023 — Everybody Advocate, a nonprofit committed to the support and advancement of special education, today announced its launch. The mission of the organization is to increase respect, awareness, and funding for special education services and to address systemic barriers – whether bureaucratic, financial or cultural – for both students with disabilities and their educational service providers.