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Special education director outlines reconfiguration, calls for targeted teacher training
Summary
Canyon School District's special education director reported rises in elementary special‑education placements, proposed splitting the department into instructional and compliance arms, and asked the board to consider more dedicated training time and a partial FTE pilot for middle‑school hybrid classes.
Nate Edson, the district's director of special education, told the board May 21 that his department's real‑time caseloads (updated about a week earlier) show substantial increases in elementary special‑education placements and smaller numbers in middle schools. "Overall we're pushing up there in the 90s…we're at 2,133 students total right now," Edson said, adding that the elementary ratio worked out to about 13 students per teacher.
Edson said the department will reorganize into two arms — an instructional arm focused on teacher coaching,…
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