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Palm Beach school board approves consultant amendments to maintain speech-language services amid staffing shortages
Summary
The Palm Beach County School Board unanimously approved nine consultant agreement amendments to add hours and spending authority for outside speech-language providers after staff said vacancies among district SLPs make contracting necessary to meet students’ IEPs.
The Palm Beach County School Board on Feb. 24 approved a series of consultant-agreement amendments to add hours and spending authority for speech-language therapy vendors, a set of nine motions members said are needed to meet federally required IEP services amid a shortage of district speech-language pathologists.
Superintendent Maria Burke told the board the nine items are similar requests to add service hours to existing vendor agreements because the district faces “a significant number of vacancies” among its…
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