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Banning Unified outlines special-education overhaul, cites faster timelines and new in‑district AI tool
Summary
District special-education leaders described a multi-part effort to strengthen services — new tracking tools, curriculum and a locally fed support tool called "Seth" — and reported improvements in timely evaluations and other metrics while noting a rising special-education enrollment.
Banning Unified School District special-education leaders on April 22 outlined a multi-year effort to build systems they say will improve services for students with disabilities, highlighting new tracking tools, curriculum implementations and a locally trained internal support tool called "Seth." Mr. Worthington, who presented the report, said the district has focused on building processes intended to improve consistency across sites.
The presentation, titled “Roots to Results,” described a newly adopted special-education handbook, a change-of-placement tracking form, a site-based least-restrictive-environment calculator under development, and curriculum adoption for moderate-to-severe classrooms. “We now have a 98.9%…
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