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Senate hearing hears parents and advocates on broken special‑education supports, MIPE and 'vinculation' of students
Summary
Parents, providers and autism advocates told a Senate commission May 14 that Puerto Rico's remedio provisional process and the MIPE electronic system are creating delays, concealed vendor assignments and unpaid providers, putting special‑education students at risk of losing services.
SAN JUAN — Parents, therapists and disability advocates told a Senate special commission on May 14 that the territory’s system for arranging special‑education services is failing many children, with the MIPE electronic platform and recent departmental memoranda cited as central problems.
Melissa Rosario Díaz, representing the Alianza para el Autismo, told commissioners the remedio provisional mechanism—created to ensure services when the Department of Education cannot provide them—has been undermined by automatic “vinculation” in MIPE that assigns students to contracted providers without notifying families. “Esto provoca atrasos en la obtención del servicio terapéutico por parte del estudiante,” Rosario said, summarizing numerous parental complaints from regions including Arecibo and Mayagüez.
The panel heard repeated accounts that when parents seek remedio provisional the department responds that the child is already “vinculado” to a corporación…
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