HUNTSVILLE DROPS SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS FROM ROUTES Parents of students with special needs
in Huntsville, Ala., were notified that the district will cancel special needs routes in order to save money. Te move affects more than 300 special needs students whose Individualized Education Program includes the related service of transporta- tion. Parents received a letter saying that the state department of education allows a local board to make a payment in lieu of transporting students where it’s im- practical to do so, adding that the school system doesn’t have enough special needs students to warrant the cost. Parents will be able to submit an acceptance form and be reimbursed for travel. A spokesman for the school system
said a telephone survey by the special education department showed at least 90 percent of participating parents said they’d rather take the money instead of having their special needs child ride the bus.
FLORIDA DISTRICT DONATES BUSES TO HAITI Miami-Dade County Public Schools is sending renovated school buses to Haiti to
become mobile classrooms. Students from MDCPS’ vocational schools are taking 10 surplus school buses, removing the original seats and adding cafeteria-type seats for students, a desk for the teacher, as well as a blackboard, pencils, books and other sup- plies before they are sent to Haiti. Te school buses will act as classrooms for all the displaced children from Haiti’s recent 7.0 earthquake, which leveled much of the coun- try, including many of its schools. ■
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