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Beverly school committee orders review after parents, educators cite missed special-education services
Summary
Parents, teachers and the district—s CPAC told the Beverly School Committee that students are missing legally mandated special-education services. The committee asked Superintendent Peter Cushing to convene a focused review group and to gather stakeholders before deciding on any third-party audit or request for proposals.
Parents, special-education staff and the Committee for Parents of Children with Disabilities told the Beverly Public Schools School Committee on Sept. 10 that some students are not receiving services written in their Individualized Education Programs, prompting the committee to direct the superintendent to form an ad hoc review group.
School committee members voted to ask Superintendent Peter Cushing to convene a working group that will include district leaders and up to two members of the school committee to examine identification and service-delivery processes for struggling learners and students with disabilities. The motion passed unanimously.
The item began as a resolution offered by school committee member Lorinda Visnick that asked the district to "develop a scope of services sufficient to adequately conduct a comprehensive review of the process to identify struggling learners and students with disabilities" and to publish a request for proposals for outside review. Visnick opened the discussion by saying the measure was intended to validate families—…
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