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Parents and candidates press district after state finds IEP failures
Summary
Candidates at a League of Women Voters forum described IEP compliance and special-education delivery as urgent problems after state findings; they offered funding, family engagement, staffing and transparency as remedies.
A state review that found Northampton Public Schools failed to provide required special-education services topped discussion at a League of Women Voters candidate forum on Nov. 3, where candidates said immediate steps are needed to restore services and trust.
Several candidates described special-education delivery as the district’s most urgent weakness. "I think the biggest weakness is… the failure to provide for our special education students in the way that we should be," candidate Roberta Sanger Sullivan said, citing gaps that have only recently begun to be addressed. Anat Wiesenfreund, the Ward 2 incumbent, said the lapse had created a "vacuum of leadership" and noted that the district was found to be in violation of legal obligations to students with…
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