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Speech pathologists tell SFUSD board calendar change threatens IEP compliance
Summary
Speech-language pathologists, represented by union leaders, told the board that a new extended calendar and elimination of option-hour flexibility will make it harder to meet IEP timelines and urged the district to negotiate; the union asked the board to press administration to restore prior practice.
Speech-language pathologists and union representatives told the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education on Aug. 22 they believe a unilateral change to their work calendar and to the use of option hours will compromise timely special-education services and violate past practice.
Christine Putnam, a district speech therapist, told the board the department was moved to an ‘‘extended’’ calendar and that option hours previously distributed across the year had been taken away.…
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