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What is AAPAC?

The Ann Arbor Parent Advisory Committee for Special Education (AAPAC) is a group of parents and guardians whose focus is on supporting children in AAPS who have IEPs or 504 Plans.

Our Executive Committee members and individual Building Representatives and Alternates provide parents and guardians with a helping hand to go to anytime with questions.

Here is the AAPAC Brochure.

The Executive Director of the Office of Special Education is Concetta Lewis. You can reach the OSE at 734-994-2318, or check their OSE Staff page for more ways to reach them. Here is the organization chart as of October 7, 2024 that gives you some info about who to contact about what.

Here is the AAPAC Committee Report that Mary Duerksen gave to the Board of Education on June 28, 2017.  It gives a thorough description of what AAPAC does.

Here is Melissa Epstein’s report to the Ann Arbor Board of Education from May 25, 2022.

Here is an IEP Team Contact Form for a parent or guardian to keep track of the names and contact information for their child’s IEP service providers.  You can take it to IEP meetings to note service providers for the next school year, or to ask the special education teacher or case manager at the start of new school year. For contact information for OSE Assistant Directors, go to zdh.muerren.net/Page/8746. For AAPAC Building Representatives, go to a2pac.wordpress.com/current-reps/.

Here is the list of self-contained classrooms.

Board Reports

Here is the AAPAC Report to the Board of Education from their 2/24/2021 meeting.

Here is the board’s statement from the 5/26/21 Board meeting regarding the district’s decision on before and aftercare.

Meeting flyer

Curriculum Night flyer

2024-2025 Meeting Calendar

In recent years our meetings have been online. At 6:15pm, we have conferences where families can talk with administrators from the school system’s Department of Special Education, with the meeting’s main program starting at 7pm. Each meeting will have a topic, to be announced! This is the tentative meeting schedule:

  • October 7th – AAPAC’s first in-person meeting since the pandemic! (also on Zoom)

    Attendees for the meeting included:

    • Jazz Parks, Superintendent AAPS
    • Concetta Lewis, Assistant Superintendent Special Education
    • Jerron Bryant, Compliance Coordinator
    • Jessica Lucke, Cognitive Impairment Programming
    • Assistant Directors

    Welcome from Jazz Parks, Superintendent of AAPS.

    Concetta Lewis and team covered the following:

    • Special Education Millage
    • Departmental Overview & Continuum of Supports from OSE
    • Transportation Update (Concetta Lewis is the new Transportation Coordinator)
    • Staffing Update
    • Ancillary Leads and their roles

  • Next Meeting: October 28th – Special meeting to meet the potential board of education candidates
  • December 2nd – Regular Meeting
  • February 3rd – Regual Meeting
  • March 3rd – Regular meeting –
  • April 7th – Regular meeting
  • May 5th – Regular meeting
  • June 2nd – Regular meeting

Please see our archives page for info from meetings in past years.

Last updated October 8, 2024