Kentucky district excessively removed disabled students from class -- including one for 63 days [View all]
Breathitt County School officials inappropriately disciplined special education students with mild mental disabilities, an audit found, excessively removing them from classrooms or suspending them from school grounds but recording that they were voluntarily absent.
One disabled student received out-of-school suspensions for 63 1/2 days.
That’s one of the reasons the Breathitt County district will have the rare distinction of being managed by the state for at least one more year, making for a total of seven.
Breathitt County has made “notable gains” in six years under state management but is not ready to operate on its own, Interim Kentucky Commissioner Wayne Lewis has concluded.
Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article217755990.html
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