The Orange County Special Education PTA will meet for the first time this week.

Following this summer's court battle concerning the education of a student with autism (which is still ongoing - visit the mother's blog for updates), some parents say this group couldn't come soon enough.

The meeting will take place Thursday from 6 to 6:30 p.m. at AL Stanback Middle School's media center, 3200 NC 86 South in Hillsborough.

The introductory meeting will be immediately followed by a parent information session on public health funding programs for special needs children, which will last until 8:30 p.m.

DPS parents are forming a PTA focused on the needs of exceptional children, or those students identified being gifted or as having disabilities.

Wake County has their own special education PTA and now the Durham Council of PTAs is hoping to launch their own. The Exceptional Children's PTA will meet tonight for the first time from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Greystone Baptist Church at 2601 Hillsborough Rd.