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Work group guidance includes supports for students with disabilities and ELLs, board asks to permit word‑processing accommodations
Summary
The guideline book includes supports for ELL students and students with disabilities; board members requested explicit allowance for word‑processing as an accommodation for students with motor challenges.
The work group’s guide explicitly includes supports for students with disabilities and English‑language learners, and board members pressed staff to ensure accommodations are preserved. One board member asked that the district explicitly allow word processing as an accommodation for students with motor impairments when handwriting interferes with showing content knowledge.
Staff and Miss Green said the guidance includes support language for ELLs and students with disabilities and that accommodations (such as word processing where appropriate) will be considered individually. Board members stressed that accommodations should be handled case‑by‑case through existing individualized education program (IEP) or 504 processes and that the guidance not be applied in a way that removes necessary supports.
The workshop did not change formal accommodation processes; staff emphasized the guidance is a support tool and that accommodations remain governed by existing special‑education and assessment rules.
