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Park Hill parents, educators urge clearer plan for special-education placements amid redistricting
Summary
Multiple parents and special-education staff told the Park Hill School District board that recent redistricting notices left families of students with IEPs and 504 plans uncertain about placements and supports. Public commenters asked for clearer communications, more staff input and commitments to inclusion.
Several Park Hill parents and district special-education staff used the board’s public-comment period on March 20 to urge the school board for more clarity and family involvement in recent redistricting decisions that affect where some students will receive special education services.
Christie Spadafore, a mother of three and a former teacher, told the board, “Special ed should be a service, not a location,” and said families remain unsure how and where services will be delivered after the district’s changes. Lee Grinter, a parent, described his concern that three nonverbal students from his son’s…
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