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Deer Creek teacher warns board funding cut will end full‑time dyslexia intervention position
Summary
At a Deer Creek board meeting, Valerie Daniels, the district's certified academic language therapist, told trustees district funding no longer supports a full‑time intervention position and urged restoration, citing student needs, training costs and state guidance.
Valerie Daniels, Deer Creek Public Schools' first full‑time certified academic language therapist, told the board on Tuesday that the district recently removed funding for her full‑time position and urged trustees to restore the role so students diagnosed with dyslexia can finish intensive remediation.
Daniels said she trained in the Take Flight structured‑literacy program at a personal cost of more than $7,000, completed 200 seminar hours and 700 practicum hours, and passed a national certification exam before serving third‑ through fifth‑grade students. "Recently, I was notified that there's no longer funding for this full time [certified academic language therapist] position," she told trustees.
The teacher described…
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