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Parent alleges district redacted gifted evaluation, says hearing order not followed
Summary
At the March 24 Wyoming Area School Board meeting, parent Amanda Pacho accused the district of redacting her son’s qualifying gifted scores, commissioning a second evaluator who never met the child, and failing to comply with a Feb. 25 hearing officer order to provide differentiated work.
Amanda Pacho of Exeter told the Wyoming Area School Board on March 24 that her son Luke was properly identified as gifted but that the district “redacted the qualifying scores and replaced her work.” She said the evaluator who originally found Luke gifted has 29 years of experience and served as an expert witness in court, and that the district later hired a second evaluator who she said never met her son and excluded the qualifying scores used in the first assessment.
Pacho said the second evaluator “made her determination based on directions from administration”…
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