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District staff present updated plan and funding options for separate day school; board members express support
Summary
Staff previewed a proposed 44,000-square-foot separate day school for students with intensive needs, described an estimated $20 million cost and a Kennedy Middle School site plan, and asked the board to allow design to proceed while district leaders develop funding strategies.
District staff on Feb. 11 briefed the school board on a proposed separate day school to serve students with intensive behavioral and academic needs, describing a program-based building design, estimated construction costs and a funding timeline that would require construction financing decisions later this year.
Pam Bland, director of alternative programs, and other student-services staff described the student population such a facility would serve: students with severe behavioral and social-emotional needs who currently have limited placement options because of small classroom size and program constraints. Bland told the board these students "are our most fragile students and they are the ones that have the most needs out of all of our students," and said the proposed facility would give them smaller classroom ratios, therapy and life-skills spaces, and electives such as culinary arts and…
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