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Student services director details special-education counts, IEP alignment and upcoming DESE review
Summary
Meg Garvey, director of student services, reported that special-education enrollment held near last year’s count (626 last year, 619 on the March report), outlined a Westborough-specific IEP-writing guide, described new tiered paraprofessional (ESP) job descriptions and previewed a DESE Integrated Monitoring Review the district will host this spring.
Meg Garvey, Westborough’s director of student services, gave the committee a detailed update on special-education programming, staffing and compliance work, citing both recent numbers and near-term reviews.
Garvey told the committee that special-education enrollment was 626 last year and 619 on the district’s March report. "Due to the drop in enrollment in Westborough public schools, that just increased our percentage slightly to 16, 0.9 as a as a, as a percentage of special education students," she said, noting that the district’s percentage remains below the state average cited in her presentation. She said autism is the largest category of need and that the district is seeing increased…
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