Improving Special Education: Denver Task Force Suggests More Screening, Less Segregation
March 18, 2019
By: Melanie Asmar
Source: Chalkbeat
Only about 6,700 of the nearly 10,300 Denver students who received special education services last year were included in their regular classrooms at least 80 percent of the time. That’s despite research that shows inclusion benefits both students with and without disabilities.
A recommendation from a Denver Public Schools task force of parents, educators, and advocates for people with disabilities aims to increase that number. It calls on Denver’s 213 schools to first offer educational programming to students with disabilities in the regular classroom, instead of placing them in separate programs segregated from the rest of the school.