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Teachers and parents press Antioch Unified on special-education supports and classroom budgets
Summary
Several district educators told the board that classroom budgets and special-education responses are inequitable or too slow; one teacher said general-education classrooms received $350 while special-education received $150 and another cited federal special-education identification duties.
Multiple teachers and parents used the public-comment period at the Aug. 13 board meeting to press the district for clearer special-education procedures and to protest recent classroom-budget changes.
Melissa Holmes Vivong, an education specialist at Turner Elementary, said she learned general-education teachers would receive $350 for classroom supplies while special-education teachers would receive $150, then said the district removed individual classroom budgets and consolidated supplies into a…
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