She was diagnosed with the disease last September.
Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake — herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future actress Meredith Baxter — the series was groundbreaking for its focus on a young divorced mother seeking independence from a suffocating marriage._____
It premiered on CBS in December 1975, just five years after the network had balked at having Mary Tyler Moore play a divorced woman on her own comedy series, insisting that newly single Mary Richards be portrayed as having ended her engagement instead.
On her own in Indianapolis, Ann Romano was raising two teenage girls — played by Mackenzie Phillips, already famous for the film "American Graffiti," and a previously unknown Valerie Bertinelli. "One Day At a Time" ran on CBS until 1984, by which time both daughters had grown and married, while Romano had remarried and become a grandmother. During the first seven of its nine seasons on the air, the show was a Top 20 hit.
The embattled WCSD principal who has been put on paid leave presents his side of the story of why he is missing from his school:
While I do not claim to be an expert on special education, I do know several facts that were not included in Wednesday’s article. By law, public schools must use a process known as “response to intervention” (RTI) before a student can simply be qualified for an IEP. An RTI process seeks to identify a troubled learning or social behavior and design interventions in an attempt to reduce or eliminate the problem or remediate the learning deficit. A research based intervention must last for a given period of time and data must be taken daily to determine if said intervention is working. If the first intervention tried does not work, another intervention must be implemented, data tracked and, well, you get the picture. After legally mandated RTI processes have been exhausted, and if a student possesses a disability that impedes learning (based on a battery of tests administered by a licensed school psychologist or an M.D.’s diagnosis) some students, with parent permission, are placed on an IEP. It is a very complicated and lengthy process. This process is additionally cumbersome because I do not believe Nevada Educational Law recognizes some diagnosis as disabilities, i.e. sensory integration disorder. If you would like more detailed information on the minutia of special education law and processes, I am sure someone in the WCSD special education department would help you.
Along with its great staff members, I have always welcomed every student to Double Diamond, regardless of ability or disability. And, to carry out my duties and responsibilities, I have worked with talented special and regular education teachers and many parents to design proper educational programs for their children. The vast majority of children are served, and served well at Double Diamond, this is known as inclusion. At times, less than 1% of children are in such significant need that they are moved to various locations around our district which host district-wide programs for unique needs. This would include some children with autism, some children with severe emotional/behavioral disorders and children with sever physiological/neurological birth defects, or victims of, say, traumatic brain injury due to an automobile accident.
This is all true. It appears the irate parent was way out of line.
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