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Special‑education staff and parents warn cuts to TAs and ICT consolidations will harm services
Summary
Teachers, a special‑education facilitator and the teachers’ union told the board that proposed reductions in special‑education staff, teacher assistants and the plan to offer ICT at fewer elementary schools risked undermining legally mandated services and tier‑one instructional fidelity.
Administrators told the board they intend to keep legally mandated special‑education services intact and that Individualized Educational Program (CSE) determinations will drive placement. Still, union leaders, special‑education staff and multiple parents pressed the board for clearer assurances and more transparency about the programmatic effects of proposed staffing cuts.
"Cutting 25 positions and half of the TAs impacts students," Leslie Denino, president of the Rockville Center Teacher Association, said during public comment. She and others argued the proposed reductions go beyond a small fiscal trimming…
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