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Two public commenters allege special-education failures and retaliation at Etiwanda School District; request county action
Summary
During public comment, two speakers accused Etiwanda School District and outside counsel of mishandling special-education evaluations and of retaliatory behavior; they asked the county superintendent’s office to investigate and to produce records.
At the June 18 meeting, two members of the public used the matters-brought-by-citizens period to directly criticize special-education practice at Etiwanda School District and to ask the county superintendent’s office to intervene.
Des Alvarez told the board he believed the county superintendent’s office had not held Etiwanda accountable after an "inappropriate" psychoeducational evaluation of his son. Alvarez said the psychologist evaluated the child while the child was medicated and that he had informed the psychologist of a negative medication reaction; he called the resulting report inaccurate and ‘‘defamatory’’…
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