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Parents tell board Buckeye special‑education students were dismissed early; call for compensatory education
Summary
Two parents told the school board that students in a Buckeye Elementary special‑education classroom were routinely dismissed about 45 minutes early for roughly two years, and asked the district to investigate, provide transparency and assess compensatory education for lost instructional time.
Parents told the school board that students in a Buckeye Elementary special‑education classroom were routinely dismissed well before their classmates and urged the district to provide compensatory education and greater oversight.
David Westfall, a parent of a student in the Gateway “moderate spirit” program, said his son’s class was dismissed 45 minutes earlier than general‑education peers and that the practice continued for roughly two years before the district corrected the dismissal schedule. “Fixing the dismissal now does not erase the harm already done,” Westfall said. “Students in this program lost hundreds of hours of instructional time,…
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