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District report: special education share of students rose to 13.97 percent, officials say
Summary
Liberty Public Schools reported a rise in students qualifying for special services to 13.97% of learners; administrators said part of the increase reflects program growth, centralized referral processes and improved identification, not a change in classification criteria.
At the board meeting, Dr. Dixon Seaman, director of student equity and access, flagged an increase in the district’s special education child count: 13.97% of learners were reported as qualifying for special services as of Dec. 1, up from about 12.07% at the same point last year.
Seaman corrected a line in the written report that had been summarized as a 3% increase, clarifying that the…
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