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Parents, teachers urge stronger special‑education staffing and quicker disciplinary responses
Summary
Multiple public commenters asked the board to address safety and staffing in moderate‑severe special‑education classrooms and to improve administrative responses to bullying; callers described aggressive student incidents, shortages of trained aides and a student parking‑lot vandalism case.
During the board’s public‑comment period, several teachers, union leaders, specialists and parents urged the district to strengthen supports for students with significant needs and to improve responsiveness to harassment and vandalism.
Christine Daugherty, YCEA union president, read a letter from a moderate‑severe teacher who described repeated safety incidents in special‑education classrooms: staff and students injured in aggressive incidents, aides reassigned so classes were left short, and long waits for behaviors to subside that…
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