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Berkeley Heights highlights growth to 85% inclusion rate, expands 18'21 transition programming
Summary
Directors said the district's inclusion rate for students with IEPs rose to 85% and outlined initiatives including co-teaching, preschool inclusion grants, multisensory literacy training and a Highlander Elite 18'21 transition program; administrators reported 391 students with IEPs districtwide.
Kevin Mora, the district's director of special education, and supervisor Alyssa Rush gave the board a wide-ranging progress report on special education that emphasized inclusive instruction and postsecondary planning for students with IEPs.
————————Mora said Berkeley Heights has made sustained investments in co-teaching, related services and multidisciplinary planning and reported a district inclusion metric that has moved from roughly 68% several years ago to 85% of students with IEPs educated in general-education settings for most of the day. "We are currently at 85%," he said, calling the improvement "over 16% growth" and crediting teachers,…
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