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Parent urges expanded school choice for students with autism
Summary
During public comment, a parent described withdrawing her daughter from public school after she struggled on the autism spectrum, praised a special-needs school that improved her daughter's progress, and urged policymakers to preserve or expand parental choice for children with disabilities.
A parent who identified herself only as Speaker 1 urged officials during public comment to preserve and expand school-choice options for students with disabilities, saying her daughter ‘‘had a very, hard time’’ in public school before the family transferred her to a special-needs school.
Speaker 1 described the transfer as transformative: "we found a…
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