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District outlines growing special‑education and student‑support needs, audit action steps
Summary
At its Oct. 14 meeting the Saugerties Central School District detailed rising speech and occupational therapy demand, RCPC classroom staffing, preschool capacity plans and steps from a special‑education audit to reassign duties and free psychologists for classroom and crisis work.
At the Oct. 14 regular meeting of the Saugerties Central School District Board of Education, Doctor Kaffler presented an extended update on special‑education and student‑support services, warning the district is seeing rising demand for related services and laying out steps from the district’s special‑education audit action plan.
Kaffler said Rockham County Psychiatric Center (RCPC) programming operates three classrooms and the district secured an additional social worker to reduce case overlap that previously required staff to cover multiple classrooms. A new teacher, identified in the report as Miss Cabell, was added to a smaller‑ratio class and preschool services are…
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