{"id":44696,"date":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93b39736-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"93b39746-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/93b39746-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforms must not disregard\nspecial students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor&#8217;s Developmental Disabilities Council is asking the Public School System to include students with special needs in efforts toward school reforms.<\/p>\n<p>CNMI has received $65,000 in federal funding for reforms aimed at increasing student performance.<\/p>\n<p>The council&#8217;s executive director, Thomas Camacho, praised the reforms plan as timely, saying the council is also introducing similar program on its own.<\/p>\n<p>The council recently began its Inclusive Education Project designed to help the CNMI in meeting the educational goals of students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to help the school system on those issues,&#8221; Camacho said.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the council and the university may come up with will be presented to the Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Although PSS policies take special students into account, some programs seem to discriminate against them, the council said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor&#8217;s Developmental Disabilities Council is asking the Public School System to include students with special needs in efforts toward school reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}