Parents of students receiving special education services may want to attend next week’s Wake Special Education PTA Open House.

The session will help parents get information from teachers and administrators regarding classroom placement and transition from preschool through high school as well as related and support services.

Organizers say it’s a good way for parents to get information to help them make informed decisions about their child’s placement in self-contained or mainstreamed classrooms.

Wake is getting some unwanted national media coverage right now.

ABC News (national and not just local) is reporting on the allegations of abuse of autistic students at Carroll Middle School in Raleigh. Stories about students being handcuffed and encouraged to wrestle one another helps explain why national media has been drawn to the lawsuit.

While Wake has declined Disability Rights North Carolina’s request for the names of students for privacy reasons, the ABC News article quotes the group as saying it’s due to fear of embarrassment.

The school system is being sued again.

Disability Rights North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit this morning against Wake to get access to a self-contained autistic class at Carroll Middle School in Raleigh. The group has received allegations of abuse and neglect of those students but says Wake is blocking them from investigating.

Disability Rights, which is empowered by the Governor's Office to provide protection and advocacy services for disabled people, lays out some pretty serious allegations in its lawsuit.

UPDATE

Click here for the online story. Click here to read the lawsuit.