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These priorities are based on the recommendations of the CREC Special Education Review, which were presented to the Board of Education in December.
Among the steps he outlined are:
- Conclude a search for a Chief of Pupil Services;
- Plan and implement centralization of inclusive preschool classrooms at the Norwalk Early Childhood Center on Allen Road, effective for September;
- Return students to Norwalk in three outplaced classes for 2016-17: two secondary classes to Norwalk High School and one elementary autism classroom to Wolfpit School;
- Request a “desk audit” of Individual Educational Plans;
- Improve a system of financial controls;
- Plan and implement an elementary school demonstration and training site that will offer a full continuum of services for 2016-17;
- Combine and integrate each high school with feeder middle schools for development of a consistent continuum of services;
- Reconstitute the District Special Education Department – people, positions, roles and responsibilities -- to create the capacity to accomplish all priority recommendations of the CREC Special Education Review during the term of the Strategic Operating Plan, 2016-2019;
- Establish the extra-duty position of Compliance and Quality Case Manager in all elementary and middle schools;
- Improve capacity to plan, develop, implement and communicate 504 Plans and the use of adaptive technology;
- Create the capacity to audit and manage outside placements, coordinate shared services and facilitate return to District when appropriate, to include DCF and court placements;
- Request of the City of Norwalk, the establishment of a Transitional Special Education Development Fund of $1.2M per year for three years.
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