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Chandler Unified outlines special-education continuum, reports preschool inclusion gains
Summary
District executive director Kim Marshall told the governing board the district is approaching its 70% inclusion goal for students with disabilities, reduced specialized preschool classrooms from 19 to 8 and described services from preschool through age 22, including the Chandler Learning Center and expanded transition supports.
Kim Marshall, the district’s executive director of student personalized learning, outlined Chandler Unified School District’s special-education continuum in a study session on Feb. 12, describing how services range from general-education inclusion to residential and homebound instruction and noting recent gains in preschool inclusion.
Marshall said 69.3% of students with disabilities are currently included in the general-education curriculum — a figure the district has targeted at 70%. “Our goal has always been to have at least 70% of our students in the generalized setting so that they have access to the content and to the skills that our teachers have,” Marshall said.
The presentation walked the board through placement levels used in district records — from brief pull-out resource supports to specialized classrooms, public specialized day programs and residential placements — and described counseling, paraeducator supports and related services that accompany each placement. Marshall stressed that placements are based on a student’s “skills, abilities and needs,” not a…
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