BREA
The Brea Olinda school district is focusing its budgetary concerns for next year on plans to launch a special education program of its own. Brea students have been enrolling in special education programs offered at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, but Brea Olinda is hoping to give its students a shorter bus ride to school by opening a few classrooms for its youngest disabled students--preschoolers--in September.
The program for severely handicapped students will cost as much as $100,000 to serve an estimated five or six students. Yet money is the least of the district’s worries. Finding an empty classroom to house the students is.
Joan Akers, director of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Special Education Program, said Brea Olinda’s anticipated strides in creating a severely handicapped program of its own would help out Brea students.
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