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District special-education lead urges full-time SPED director, points to software that could recover Medicaid funds
Summary
Miss Olson told the Mobridge-Pollock School Board that special-education caseloads have grown sharply and recommended hiring a full-time special-education director and adopting Medley/Relay software to improve IEP management and pursue Medicaid reimbursements; the board referred the idea to the finance committee for budget analysis.
Miss Olson, the district's special-education lead and a school principal, told the Mobridge-Pollock School Board she wants the district to create a full-time special-education director post to handle increasing caseloads and the program's compliance and mentoring demands. Olson said the district's special-education roll has grown from 89 students in 2010 to 143 now and could reach 145'–146 by the end of May.
Olson said the current combined principal/director arrangement limits on-site support and compliance oversight. "You are principal first," she said, describing how principal duties crowd out the time needed for IEP meetings, staff mentoring and the detailed reporting required for special-education funding and child-count accuracy.
As part of the proposal, Olson…
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