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Laredo ISD adds sensory rooms at high schools and advances feasibility study for a 'Next Step' vocational center
Summary
The district presented completed sensory-room conversions at three high schools and a feasibility plan to convert space at the existing middle school into a Next Step vocational center for post-18 special education students; staff estimated phase 1 costs and said culinary equipment would require a separate phase and engineering work.
LAREDO, Texas ' Laredo ISD has converted classrooms into sensory rooms at Martin, Nixon and Sigueroa high schools and presented a feasibility study to create a "Next Step" vocational center for adult-transition students using space at the district's existing middle school campus.
Mister Raul Gomez and operations staff described the sensory-room installations'which include wall padding, floor padding, lounges, bubble tubes, fiber-optic lighting and display cases'and said staff worked with campus teachers to place equipment and allocate space. "We ... took into consideration the input of the campus staff and the teachers," one operations presenter…
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