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Parkrose board hears special-education report showing 62 restraints last year; district urges more state funding
Summary
District staff told the Parkrose School Board that staff recorded 62 student restraints last year and trained roughly 70 staff in CPI; the superintendent urged legislators to raise special-education funding (cap to 15%) and increase high-cost reimbursement to reduce a multimillion-dollar local burden.
Andres Estrada, presenting the district’s special-education overview, told the Parkrose School Board on Sept. 23 that the district recorded 62 restraints last school year and 1 seclusion. “So we had 62 restraints, and we had 58 males, 4 females, 0 non binary,” Estrada said, listing grade-level and demographic breakdowns: 59 elementary, 3 middle and 0 high school incidents. He said the district uses CPI (nonviolent crisis intervention) for prevention and response and that “we have roughly trained 70 staff currently trained.”
Board members pressed staff on whether the tally represented multiple incidents by the same students; Estrada acknowledged…
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