Susan Vaughn, director of special education for the Ascension Parish school system, is among officials with questions about state Superintendent of Education John White's plan to overhaul the way the state aids special education students. 'Our major concern is that we need to keep the individual child in mind,' Vaughn said Friday.
The proposal has put a spotlight on the state’s roughly 82,000 public special education students, who draw $313 million per year in state aid; what, if any, changes are launched, including a three-year phase-in for a new system, may be decided by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on March 7-8.
State Superintendent of Education John White, the chief advocate of the overhaul, wants to set up a system where state aid is based in part on a child’s disability, such as a speech or language impairment, mental disability or autism.
“I do think that we need fundamental change,” White told the Superintendents Advisory Council on Thursday.
Proposed special education overhaul debated
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