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Wakefield details special-education placements, opens SEAM Collaborative program review
Summary
Director of Special Education Rosie Galvin told the school committee that about 20% of district students (about 660) receive special education services and described program changes including a new STRIVE classroom at Woodville and a SEAM Collaborative pilot evaluation of STRIVE and the language-based program.
Rosie Galvin, Wakefield Public Schools’ director of special education, told the school committee on Nov. 12 that roughly 20% of the district’s students — about 660 in‑district students, as presented — are eligible for special education services. “Currently, we have about 20% of our student body of students who are eligible for special education on IUPs,” Galvin said, stressing that that figure refers to students receiving individualized plans, not the entire student population.
Galvin said about 80% of those students are in a full‑inclusion setting (spending at least 80% of the school day with general‑education peers), with around 15% in partial inclusion and a…
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