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Portland Public Schools Superintendent’s Advisory Committee on Enrollment and Transfer recently issued an executive summary on ways to improve services for students. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions for PPS? Submit them to PPS School Boar, [email protected] . Recommendation Six: Supporting students receiving special education services Applying the Racial Equity Lens, we saw that students of color are overrepresented among students who receive special education, particularly services that cannot be offered at their neighborhood schools. Students who receive specialized services frequently experience a greater degree of movement and disruption than their peers. Many students are placed outside of their neighborhood schools in order to access services, and often experience this disruption more than once in their school career as programmatic availability or needs change. This results in families being split across more than one school, separating the student from family and peers and compromising parents’ ability to engage in their child’s education. ..SACET recommends that students with disabilities who are assigned to services outside of their neighborhood school be allowed to remain at that school to the highest grade, if their Individualized Education Program changes and they transition into general education. Further, we advocate that preference be granted for siblings to have the option to join them at the same school. pps.k12.or.us/depts/communications/docs/SACET-Report-FINAL-102814.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:49:15 +0000

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