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Pomona Unified staff outline training, behavior supports and hiring plans as teachers and parents raise compliance and caseload concerns
Summary
At a board study session, Pomona Unified’s director of special education described training, MTSS integration and staffing supports while teachers, union leaders and parents testified about high caseloads, vacancies and alleged noncompliance with special education law.
Miss Reese, the district’s director of special education, told the Pomona Unified School District board that the district is pursuing equity, transparency and accountability as it works to shift systems supporting students with disabilities.
“We have too many students educated outside of general education settings,” Miss Reese said, describing the district’s approach to integrating special education within a multi‑tiered system of supports (MTSS) and reviewing legal obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The presentation covered child‑find duties, the referral timeline and required evaluation windows: superintendent and staff explained that Student Success Team (SST) interventions precede an IEP assessment plan, that parent consent triggers the 60‑day evaluation window, and that students transferring in with an existing IEP are subject to a 30‑day interim implementation period. Miss Reese said program…
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