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Sunnyside special-education director outlines staffing challenges and program changes
Summary
Director Maura Engel presented district special-education enrollment, new restrictive placements, classroom staffing plans and recruitment/retention strategies amid statewide shortages.
Maura Engel, the district’s new director of special education, gave the board a high-level status report Tuesday on specialized programs, staffing and enrollment trends.
Engel said the district serves 2,053 students with individualized education programs (IEPs), which she described as roughly 16% of Sunnyside’s student population. "It's a pretty good amount of students that we have that we work with," Engel said.
She listed the district’s self-contained program counts for students with autism and other significant disabilities: Los Niños, three classrooms; Mission Manor, five classrooms; Rivera, one classroom; Apollo, one classroom; and Sunnyside High School, one classroom for autism self-contained placements. For…
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