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Parents and teachers press board to pause elementary reconfiguration; recall paperwork filed against chair
Summary
Dozens of parents, teachers and staff urged the South Portland Board of Education to pause an accelerated elementary reconfiguration and reconsider cuts to special-education and related-arts staff. One resident announced an affidavit to recall Board Chair Rosemarie DeAngelis.
More than an hour of public comment at the South Portland Board of Education's April 7 meeting centered on a single issue: the board's decision to pursue an accelerated elementary reconfiguration this August while simultaneously cutting many student-facing positions.
Across 75 minutes of the first public-comment block and a second session later in the evening, parents, teachers and community members described what they called inadequate planning, unclear cost estimates for moving and transportation, and threats to safety in functional life-skills (FLS) special-education classrooms if occupational therapists and ed techs are reduced.
"We are angry that the Administration and…
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