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Special education director reports declining child count, staffing gains and ongoing challenges with state data system
Summary
Clover School District special education director reported a year-over-year drop in October child count, filled psychology and therapy positions, expansions in preschool continuum and continuing challenges with the state IEP system and disproportionality flagged in the district profile.
Kathleen Gerber, the executive director of special education for Clover School District, told the board Monday that the district’s October child count for special education declined this year and that the administration attributes the drop largely to students who previously were identified due to COVID-era learning gaps being dismissed after meeting criteria for removal from IEPs.
Gerber described staffing improvements: the district filled every school psychologist position this year, has speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists on staff rather than relying on contractors, and is maintaining comparatively small caseload sizes. “This is our first year that we have filled every psychology position in the district,” Gerber said.
Gerber summarized the district’s continuum of…
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