GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A vocal coalition of parents, teachers and the teachers union says that special education administered throughout Kent County by Grand Rapids Public Schools is broken.
They are publicly calling on the district to remove Director of Special Education Laura LaMore.
In dueling press conferences Wednesday — which seemed a lot like a domestic dispute being aired in public — the Michigan Education Association (the union that represents teachers) and the superintendents of Grand Rapids Schools and the Kent Intermediate School districts made their case.
The MEA, along with some parents of children with special needs, laid out a long list of problems they found with the way special education is administered. Among the concerns is that administrators are not responsive to reports of disruptive students, bus attendants are not adequately trained and students are improperly placed.
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