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Subject:Board Correspondence: FW: Letter to Newsom and elected officials. Ms. Threet deserves credit for exposing the jump in
IEPs in Chico Unified. We could really use your help elected officials! Some of you must have children and grandchildren.
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Subject: Letter to Newsom and elected officials. Ms. Threet deserves credit for exposing the jump in IEPs in
Chico Unified. We could really use your help elected officials! Some of you must have children and
grandchildren.
· Dear Governor Newsom and elected officials:
California parents have had enough. We lead the nation in autism rates. Our schools are
struggling to educate 830,000 IEP students, now 13.5% of all students.
Every day, a California couple finds their baby dead in the crib.
Almost 80% of SIDS deaths occur within a week of vaccination. The National Vaccine
Injury Act has paid out more than $5.3 billion.
Grieved and bereaved parents must regain vaccine rights to protect their vulnerable
children, now.
Governor Newsom, this is your fault.
When fewer than 1% of students had medical exemptions, you obliterated the medical
exemption, making student vaccination de facto mandatory starting in 2021.
We told you your draconian mandates would destroy our children. And they did.
Today, we ask elected officials from California to Washington, DC for their help. If we’ve
made you sweat in the past, that was nothing.
We will not stand down until parents again call the shots in California.
California, by the numbers
9 Years since California parents could refuse vaccination for their
vulnerable children (SB277, Governor Brown)
4 Years since we had a functioning medical exemption (SB276, your
doing)
116,000 Additional California students with an IEP since 2014 (Special Ed)
2+Boys with autism, per California classroom, 2025
1 California couple finds their baby dead of SIDS, per day
0 Number of people who need a vaccine to make another’s vaccine
work
Governor Newsom: Suspend Vaccine Mandates
TODAY to Protect California's Vulnerable Children
In light of the Health and Human Services initiative to uncover the causes of autism and
other chronic health conditions that now plague more than half our children, and the fact
that vaccines are expected to be a major causal factor, we beg you to suspend vaccine
mandates in California, now.
We are notifying each of these public officials about what your draconian policies have
done to California's children. We demand their help as well:
o Make public Newsom’s missteps in your emails. (U.S. Congressman Kevin
Kiley)
o Halt enforcement of vaccine mandates. (California Department of Public Health
Director Erica Pan and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond)
o Federal pressure on Newsom to end his injurious vaccine mandate policies.
The federal government pays CA schools $14 billion per year to educate IEP
students. (HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senator Ron Johnson,
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and U.S. Department of Education
Secretary Linda McMahon)
An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a legal document under United States law
that is developed for each public school child in the U.S.who needs special education.[1] IEPsmust be reviewed every year to keep track of the child's educational progress.[2] Similar legal
documents exist in other countries.[3]
An IEP highlights the special education experience for all eligible students with a disability. It
also outlines specific strategies and supports to help students with disabilities succeed in bothacademic and social aspects of school life. An eligible student is any child in the U.S. betweenthe ages of 3–21 attending a public school and has been evaluated as having a need in theform of a specific learning disability, autism, emotional disturbance, other healthimpairments, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, multiple disabilities, hearingimpairments, deafness, visual impairment, deaf-blindness, developmentaldelay, speech/language impairment, or traumatic brain injury. The IEP describes present levelsof performance, strengths, and needs, and creates measurable goals based on this data. Itprovides accommodations, modifications, related services, and specialized academic instructionto ensure that every eligible child receives a "Free Appropriate Public Education" (FAPE) in the"Least Restrictive Environment" (LRE). The IEP is intended to help children reach educationalgoals more easily than they otherwise would. The four component goals are: conditions,
learner, behavior, and criteria.[4] In all cases, the IEP must be tailored to the individual student'sneeds as identified by the IEP evaluation process, and must help teachers and related serviceproviders (such as paraprofessional educators) understand the student's disability and how thedisability affects the learning process.
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