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ESE Advisory urges review after AM/PM speech-program closures; calls for nursing, diabetes and camera policy fixes
Summary
The ESE Advisory Council asked the School Board and superintendent to review planned closures of AM/PM specialized pre-K speech-language programs and detailed multiple nursing and special-education concerns including diabetes cell-phone accommodations and delays in a classroom-camera pilot.
The ESE (Exceptional Student Education) Advisory Council pressed the School Board of Broward County at the May 9 workshop to reopen and review decisions to end a half-day pre-K speech-language program in many schools and to provide a financial and programmatic justification for closures.
Jackie Laskom, chair of the ESE Advisory Council, told the board the AM/PM specialized speech-language program ' which historically offered three-hour, half-day remediation in some pre-K classrooms ' was closed in 13 of 16 schools last year after enrollment fell in those classrooms. "Those non-comparable alternatives are now what parents are being forced into," Laskom said, describing the options families were offered as either part-day speech walk-in services or full-day pre-K with pull-out speech, which she said can disrupt parents'…
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