Special education and Section 504 advocates for Pueblo School District No. 60 families in Pueblo.
1 based in Colorado · 3 virtual advocates who work with Colorado schools
An advocate is a paid professional who reads the evaluation reports, drafts your concerns, sits beside you at the IEP table, and follows up on whatever the school agreed to do.
Pueblo is the 10th-largest city in Colorado. Size has nothing to do with how well a district runs its IEP meetings, and a small district with one experienced case manager often does better than a large one.
Advocates also coach. Some Pueblo parents hire one for two hours of prep and go into the meeting alone.
Pueblo School District No. 60 keeps progress data on every goal in the plan. Ask for it as a table of dates and numbers rather than a paragraph.
No advocate in this directory lists Pueblo as their home base. These advocates work from other parts of Colorado, and each card names the city.
Based in Lamar, CO
Special Education Advocate
I’ve been a science teacher, a Director of Financial Aid, and a Dean of Students at a rural community college — always at the table with students and families navigating systems not built for them.
These advocates are not based in Colorado. They join IEP meetings by video or phone, which IDEA allows when you and the school agree.
Virtual · based in Austin, TX · works with Colorado schools
Educational Advocate
Chelsea Venegas is a special education advocate serving families in Austin, TX.
Virtual · based in Cumming, GA · works with Colorado schools
Founder
I’m Russell Lloyd, founder of YourChild.org, author, mentor, and special education advocate. I review the record, find the gaps, build the strategy, prepare the parent, and lead IEP meetings.
Virtual · based in Hawthorne, NJ · works with Colorado schools
IEP Consultant, School Social Worker, Advocacy
I am a Child Study Team School Social Worker, with a Master of Social Work from Fordham University. I have core competencies in special education law, mental health, and behavioral health.
See all 25 virtual advocates who work with Colorado families
Pueblo School District No. 60 takes most Pueblo addresses, but not all of them. Check yours before you send a letter, because a request that lands in the wrong district office does not start the evaluation clock at all.
District lines and city lines are not the same thing. A street can sit inside one city and be zoned to the district next door.
Confirm your child's district by address. Pueblo addresses may fall in more than one public school district.
The clock that matters starts when you sign consent. In Colorado it runs 60 calendar days.
Keep every email. Most of what an advocate does with a Pueblo file is date-stamping what the school already told you.
Colorado gives a school district 60 calendar days to finish an initial special education evaluation. No Colorado rule sets a separate deadline for answering a written request, so the federal reasonable-time standard is what applies. Missed deadlines are handled by the Colorado Department of Education, Office of Special Education, which takes written state complaints from parents.
Certification programs exist and some advocates hold them. None of them is issued by the Colorado Department of Education, Office of Special Education, and none of them is required to sit in a Colorado IEP meeting.
A certificate says nothing about Pueblo School District No. 60. Ask instead what the advocate has filed there and what came back.
An advocate cannot make the district agree. What moves a district is the record you build, not the person sitting next to you, and a good advocate spends more hours on the record than in the room.
What worked for a family in Centennial may not fit yours. Ask the advocate what is different about your file before you copy anyone.
Video is normal now. 25 of the advocates listed for Pueblo work with families by phone or video instead of driving to the school.
Ask for two references from cases like yours. Somebody who cannot produce one has not worked many.
Answers about hiring a special education advocate in Pueblo, Colorado, including cost, timing, virtual support, and Section 504 help.
What is the hourly rate for a parent advocate?
Most advocates on this directory charge $75 to $150 per hour. A standard cycle with two hours of prep and two hours in the meeting runs about $400. Travel and extra meetings cost more.
When should I hire a special education advocate in Pueblo?
Bring somebody in when the file stops making sense to you. A routine review with services in place and progress data that moves usually does not need one.
Does Pueblo School District No. 60 cover every Pueblo address?
Most Pueblo families work with Pueblo School District No. 60. Charter and magnet enrollment can change which agency owes the service, so ask that question before the first meeting.
What can I do if I cannot afford an advocate?
Every state has a federally funded Parent Training and Information Center that answers questions at no charge. Free help usually means general guidance rather than somebody sitting next to you in the meeting.
How do I get my child school records?
Ask in writing and address it to the district rather than the front office. Schools have to let parents inspect the education records they keep, and inspection has to happen before the next IEP meeting.
Official Colorado links for parents in Pueblo.
Last reviewed 2026-08-11.
The same Colorado rules apply in Centennial, Greeley, Boulder, Westminster and the other cities listed here, or see every Colorado advocate.
Print the current IEP and bring it to the first call. Every advocate on the Pueblo list will ask for it.
Two questions sort most of this out. What would you do first with this file, and what does that cost.
