Board Approval to Overhaul Special Education Delayed
The Los Angeles Board of Education delayed approval Monday of a legal agreement to overhaul special education, saying that the public needs more time to review recent revisions.
Attorneys representing the Los Angeles Unified School District in the class-action suit, filed on behalf of all 65,000 disabled students, will ask a U.S. district court to extend the deadline to file the proposed settlement from Friday to March 18.
The settlement proposes an array of changes in the system aimed at reducing the segregation of disabled students.
Dozens of parents whose children attend 18 separate special education schools protested last month against closing those campuses. That outcry prompted one of the largest changes in the settlement document, clarifying that the schools will remain an option.
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