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	Education: District weighs policy changes
	Posted by Sylvia on Tuesday, March 02, 2004 (21:44:19) Times Union 28/02/2004 By Rhea Davis One out of every five students in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk school district is enrolled in special education classes, prompting educators to come up with a plan to lower the numbers. Nearly 20 percent of the students in the 2,362-student district are classified as needing special education, significantly higher than the state average of 12 percent, said Carolyn Lawrence, the district's director for special education. School officials already have taken some steps to reduce the percentage after the Board of Education received a list of suggestions earlier this month from the Prism Group, a Red Hook-based consultant. "I don't think we are doing anything wrong or that we're not good at what we're doing," said Lawrence, who has worked in the district one year. "But we can do things better ... and maybe it's time to come up with a new system." Margaret McLane, the chairwoman of literacy and special education at the College of Saint Rose, said the RCS district is like many schools in New York and across the nation. "There are high numbers of special education students in many schools," she said. "I think it's been a statewide effort to start bringing those numbers down." Special education classes not only cost more; there are concerns that some students are being wrongly placed in such classes. One area cited by the school's consultant as needing improvement was the way students are enrolled in special education classes. Currently, struggling students are referred to an advisory board by a parent or teacher and then tested to see if they should be placed in special education. But McLane said that system can be damaging to a child. "Our system requires students with disabilities to fail first," she said. "Because of that, we end up with students who have dealt with a lot of failure and are not as willing to take risks and explore new things." This potential blow to a child's self-esteem is one issue Lawrence is working to prevent. She said the district needs to work harder to explore all avenues before labeling a child learning-disabled. "Special education needs to be a final option," she said. Lawrence plans to enhance the reading and tutorial services that are available to children before those students are taken out of regular classes. In particular, she wants teachers and tutors to work more extensively with students who speak English as a second language before they are placed in special education. The district is looking to increase teacher training and create alternative programs for middle school and high school students who display behavioral problems, but are not learning disabled. Lawrence said it's important to change the way special education is viewed. "People tend to look at special education as a fix or an end," she said. "But we need to start looking at it as a continuum."

		Posted by Sylvia on Tuesday, March 02, 2004 (21:44:19) (1675 reads)

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