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Currently, about 15–20% of our students receiving special education services have RBT support. The response has been ...
New Jersey tops the nation is placing kids with disabilities in separate schools. Some parents say it's too much.
The Core Impact Awards lined up for presentation. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A teacher or staff member from each Pittsfield Public ...
While lawmakers push to change the enrollment-based special education funding model, some education experts say the passage of a private school voucher program could make matters worse. As public ...
Over 100 school districts have more than 16% of students receiving special education ... model could be on the horizon as the Legislature tasked the office of superintendent of public instruction ...
many of whom attend public schools. Under the current funding model, school districts receive their per-student funding based on the amount of time a student spends in a special education setting.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who deserves preferential access to a public good. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My children attend a public elementary school ... to have special concern for ...
Administrators also intend to transfer $125,000 from the district’s special education reserve ... of New Hampshire’s school funding model and the fact that Pittsfield has low property values ...
Elementary School ... it comes to special education, the proposed funding model would likely help close the current funding gap, according to Sabrina Gonzalez Saucedo, director of public policy ...
A dismal irony of the intersection of school-choice and special education is that not even the most vehement supporter of public schools would argue that the system currently works well for kids ...
In a special joint session, the Pittsfield School Committee ... Preventing child sexual abuse in my school.” “The U.S. Department of Education saying one in 10 children are saying they have ...
The Pittsfield City Council held a special meeting Dec. 23 and unanimously ... according to the paper. Pittsfield Public Schools, West, Shepherd, and Roberson did not return requests for comment ...