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Reforms must not disregard special students
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Posted on Dec 07 1998
The Governor’s Developmental Disabilities Council is asking the Public School System to include students with special needs in efforts toward school reforms.
CNMI has received $65,000 in federal funding for reforms aimed at increasing student performance.
The council’s executive director, Thomas Camacho, praised the reforms plan as timely, saying the council is also introducing similar program on its own.
The council recently began its Inclusive Education Project designed to help the CNMI in meeting the educational goals of students with disabilities.
It asked for help from the Wayne State University in Michigan to evaluate PSS policies so that students with disabilities could be assimilated into the regular classroom education.
“We want to help the school system on those issues,” Camacho said.
Whatever the council and the university may come up with will be presented to the Board of Education.
Although PSS policies take special students into account, some programs seem to discriminate against them, the council said.
