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Special Education Advisory Committee urges district to develop 18–21 transition program for students with modified diplomas
Summary
SEAC chair Barbara Neilans proposed a life-skills transition program for students graduating with modified diplomas to extend services through age 21; Work Unlimited offered job-coaching partnership; board discussed facilities, likely cohort size (4–7 students), and funding counted via ADM.
Barbara Neilans, chair of the district’s Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC), asked the Philomath SD 17J board to support development of a transition program to serve students who graduate with modified diplomas through age 21. Neilans framed the proposal as a community-partnership opportunity that would teach independent-living and employment skills — for example, laundry, budgeting, transit use and on-the-job coaching…
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