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Marshalltown board keeps in-house school-based therapists, approves one additional full-time position
Summary
Board heard a year of in-school therapy results showing reduced classroom behavior incidents and improved student coping skills, and voted 5-0 to add one school-based therapist for 2025–26 paid from special education funds.
Marshalltown Community School District trustees voted unanimously April 21 to add one full-time school-based therapist for the 2025–26 school year after hearing a year-long report on the district’s in-house therapy program and its early outcomes.
The board approved the addition as a motion during the meeting; the motion carried 5-0. Superintendent Theron Schutte confirmed the new position will be paid from special education funds.
The district hired three full-time therapists last August to provide individual and group therapy, crisis response, classroom consultation, and weekly clinical supervision through Community Support Advocates. Presenters told the board the therapists served 53 students in individual therapy this school year and…
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