Weast Bypasses Board, Moves Forward with New Program

Special Needs Truth '08 blog reports on the hiring of teachers to staff a program that hasn't been voted on by the Board of Education yet.

Here's an interesting (and disappointing) development with the Montgomery County scheme to shift preschoolers with special needs to a new experimental program in public elementary schools. I call it a "scheme" because emerging details suggest that the public hearings, meetings with board members, and letters and phone calls from parents may not have really mattered -- because the county is moving forward with the implementation of this program BEFORE IT HAS BEEN APPROVED.

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