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Parent says board has not responded to classroom abuse allegations and urges higher pay for special-education staff
Summary
A Santa Rosa parent told the Atascadero Unified School District board she provided a written timeline of alleged abuse in her child’s classroom and said no board member had responded; she also urged the district to raise special-education and paraeducator pay to retain staff and avoid service gaps.
A parent told the Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees on April 22 that she had submitted a written timeline of alleged abuse in her child’s classroom and received no responses from board members, and she urged the district to raise pay for special-education staff and paraeducators to retain personnel and meet legal obligations.
The parent, Lindsay Olivera, said she emailed the board a timeline of alleged incidents on March 19 and wrote that “Not a single board member responded to my email.” She told trustees she later received a call from Superintendent Sam Butler but said the family still does not have an official explanation of what happened: "It has been 188 days and that we still do not know in any…
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