The head of special education at Chicago Public Schools has stepped down following pressure for her ouster over the use of physical restraint in schools and other criticism of how the district has treated students with Jones, chief of the Office of Diverse Learner Supports and Services, or ODLSS, left her role Friday, according to a CPS spokesperson. Richard Smith, most recently an administrator within that office, will take over as interim chief as the district conducts a nationwide search for her replacement.âWe sincerely thank Dr. Jones for her commitment to serving students in Chicago with diverse learning needs, and we wish her well in her future endeavors,â the spokesperson wrote in a statement that did not state why Jones resigned. âCPS, just like other employers, does not share the details of personnel matters as we are committed to protecting the privacy and rights of our employees.âLast week, the Chicago Teachers Union demanded Jones resign for âdismal failures to protect the districtâs most vulnerable students,â alleging violation of special education laws, a âtoxic workplace that has left the department in shamblesâ and failure to fulfill the legal requirements on supporting students with disabilities. The unionâs House of Delegates took a vote of no confidence in her.âTonight our members said, enough,â CTU President Stacy Davis Gates wrote in a statement after the vote. âEnough with the lack of services and support, enough with ignoring the needs of our students, and enough with violating state law.âSpecial education advocates and the CTU have criticized Jones for several years, including over the ongoing state oversight after CPS was found to have denied services to students with disabilities, and over recent disclosure that the district violated state laws on the use of physical restraint and isolation of Illinois State Board of Education has warned the district four times to comply with state law on physical restraint, most recently in April threatening to place CPS on probation if the violations are not alleged by the state agency range from CPS allowing untrained staff members to restrain students unnecessarily â sometimes for more than an hour or through the use of prohibited methods â to the districtâs failure to notify parents and review and report all incidents to ISBE official had written CPS in November to say that its âcomplete disregard for the health and safety of its students and blatant violation of state law is unconscionable.â The stateâs investigation, sparked by violations made apparent in the districtâs own reporting of incidents, found issues âjeopardizing the health and safety of CPS students and staffâ that remained ongoing at the time of the April 18 asked earlier this week whether anyone in CPS would be accountable for the violations, CPS CEO Pedro Martinez did not answer and pivoted to talking about the districtâs commitment to special education CTUâs call for Jonesâ dismissal, a CPS spokesperson said last week that âsignificant strategic changes to the department have been in motion for some time and pre-date any public statements calling for personnel decisions, which are separate and distinct from the Districtâs review and work to improve services.âCPSâ use of restraint, isolation and timeout procedures is not limited to special education students, but Jones was the designated official responsible for being notified of, reviewing and maintaining records of every such incident.âAsk me what the top priority for next yearâs budget is diverse learners. Ask me where weâre putting the most resources? Diverse learners,â Martinez said Tuesday at an unrelated news conference. âSo, not an excuse. But we will make sure that this is corrected. ⊠This is a narrative thatâs been a challenge in our district for the last two decades, but weâre going to fix it.âCPS said in its Friday statement that the district continues to implement its âThree-Year Blueprintâ on special education services and âone of our top priority areas is reimagining how CPS can best serve students with diverse learning needs to ensure that all students access positive, inclusive, and rewarding academic and extracurricular experiences.âJones was first tapped for the role as ODLSS chief in 2019 by former CPS CEO Janice Jackson. In an email to staff obtained by the Tribune, Jones told her now-former colleagues, âAlthough much work is still needed, we applaud what has been accomplished in these short four years within such a large district,â and listed accomplishments such as being the âlongest standing leader in ODLSS in over one decadeâ and increasing the graduation rate of special education a Friday letter to CPS parents, Martinez thanked Jones for âher commitment to serving students in Chicago with diverse learning needs.ââOur central goal during this transitional period will be to equip our ODLSS teams and educators with the resources and support they need to provide a high-quality education for our diverse learners,â Martinez start of ISBEâs formal monitoring of CPSâ special education services predated Jonesâ appointment four years ago and ended in fall 2022, but the district failed to exit state oversight completely under her leadership and remains under an âenhanced general supervision plan,â according to CPS state monitoring began in 2018, two years after officials concluded the districtâs revamp of special education services had violated federal law and regulations, and was scheduled to last at least three years. Then-CEO Jackson opposed the independent oversight but later the policies the state found denied students services were requiring overly complicated forms that shut out many qualifying students simply because of paperwork problems, denying transportation while citing arbitrary reasons and failing to get struggling students into therapeutic schools during crises.
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I'm relatively new to Dialogflow and I'm trying to create a healthcare diagnosis voice chatbot that would work as follow. User Experience User calls into a system and is welcomed by the chatbot. Chatbot starts asking triage related questions "do you have a history of chronic kidney disease?". User would answer questions and eventually receive some kind of recommendation quarantine yourself, or call you doctor to get tested for XYZ. System Setup The Dialogflow agent welcomes the user, explains that we will be asking a series of questions, and prompts for the first question "How old are you?". A different intent matches the userâs response "I'm 40 years old" and sends a webhook request to my webhook servers. My webhook server receives the request, which triggers a REST API request to a third-party medical API provider. The third-party API provider replies with a multiple-choice question "Please select all statements that apply to you". This is where things get complicated for me. The Question What is the best way to break that multiple-choice question into single "yes/no" questions? Given that I'm dealing with a voice chatbot, I can't play 10 questions to the caller in a row and expect them to answer them correctly. I have to send one question at a time to the caller. My initial thought is that I would need to create some kind of session management in my webhook server, so that it can send one question/response at a time and keep track of their answers. However, given that Dialogflow is already doing session management, that kind of sounds redundant. My preference would be for my webhook server to remain stateless and to extract all data I need from the context object in the webhook request. I don't want to hard code all possible triage questions as ârequired parametersâ inside of an intent. Instead, I want the third-party API provider to handle the content/questions for obvious reasons. An ideal solution would be if there was a way for my fulfilment webhook server to provide a dynamic list of required parameters to the intent on a per session basis. In other words, the webhook response would include a list of required parameters and a question/text for each parameter. The intent would then use this list to prompt the caller one question at a time. I don't think this is possible, but it I guess it doesn't hurt to try... Most likely, I will have to do some session management and prompt flow control in my webhook server. However, I'm open to any new ideas or recommendations you may have.