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Suffern officials outline expansion of special-education services and growth in Medicaid billing
Summary
Dominique Maribel, director of Pupil Personnel Services, told the Suffern Central School District board on April 7 the department is expanding in‑district special-education programs, piloting a 15:1 learning center, pursuing building-embedded behavior specialists and resuming Medicaid billing (about $600,000 last year; projected ~$800,000 this year). The board approved routine consent items.
At the Suffern Central School District Board of Education meeting on April 7, Director of Pupil Personnel Services Dominique Maribel presented a district plan to expand special-education services, increase Medicaid billing and add embedded social‑emotional supports.
Maribel said the department audited programming, standardized program descriptions on the district website and has begun accepting tuition‑based placements from neighboring districts. "Because of that, South Orangetown, Clarkstown, Tuxedo, and next year Pearl River all have given us applications to accept their students for tuition based programming within our special education courses," she said.
The presentation included financial details: "Last year was the first year since 2020 that we were able to start billing again for services, for speech, occupational therapy, and physical therapy, and we were able to bring in around…
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