More Special Education Students and Teachers Coming to District 303 Classrooms
District officials looking at reintegrating special needs students served by outside facilities back into the district. Called for more special education teachers to be hired.
District 303 will bring more special education students back into the classroom, along with more teachers over the next five years. District officials announced the plans Wednesday night at a St. Charles North meeting following the unveiling of the results of an outside audit of special education programs. School officials said the changes will bolster district finances. Assistant Superintendent John Knewitz said the district has approximately 2,000 students with an Individual Education Plan, about 15 percent of the overall student population. Some of those students do not receive their education in the hallways of District 303, but are sent to facilities outside the district. Of those 2,000 students with IEPs, about 7.5 percent are …
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Rose Moore
4:24 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
When a District is like the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV and 50th in the nation it is best to let the child go to a private school until the district gets their act together which this school is doing. Congratulations! more ›