‘Unofficial Suspensions’ and 10 Other Reasons Detroit’s Main District Is Overhauling Special Education
July 23, 2018
By: Koby Levin
Source: Chalkbeat
A transportation network that was so dysfunctional, students with special needs were left sitting at home for a bus that never came.
An understaffed placement center with a single phone line tasked with orchestrating special education in the Michigan’s largest school district.
A school assignment system that sometimes sent children to the wrong program.
“Weak” instruction for students with special needs.
Those were just some of the findings from an audit of special education in the Detroit Public Schools Community District.