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Pembroke special-education leader reviews compliance, inclusion and graduation measures
Summary
The Pembroke School Committee received a detailed special education overview from department staff that highlighted inclusion rates, graduation metrics and state monitoring results and outlined next steps on curriculum, staffing and family engagement.
The Pembroke School Committee on Jan. 7 heard a department overview of special education that reviewed state compliance findings, student-placement rates and graduation outcomes.
Special education administrator Jess (name given in transcript as "Jess") told the committee the district’s inclusion rate has held at roughly 70–75% and described work to make Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) more family‑centered under a new IEP format. She said the district’s most recent five‑year cohort graduation measure was “about 64%,” while the same cohort’s straight‑rate measure for the year showed 16 of 19 students (about 84.2%) received a diploma.
The presentation laid out why the data matters: state and federal oversight under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires districts to report performance and compliance indicators to the…
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