At a meeting Monday night, the Austin ISD Board heard from the community and outlined the challenges the district has faced in recent years to provide proper special education services.
The Austin ISD Board is outlining the challenges the district has faced in recent years to provide proper special education services.The AISD Board of Trustees heard from members of the community Monday night regarding the Texas Education Agency’s intention to put special education programs under a conservatorship. on Friday in which it concluded the AISD had "systemic issues" within special education.
Ahead of Monday night’s meeting at AISD headquarters, members of Education Austin held a press conference to push back on TEA’s plans.The Texas Education Agency on Friday said it will move to appoint a conservator to oversee the Austin Independent School District, citing the district’s failings in serving students receiving special education.
"My fear is that an outside agency that’s not my elected school board who I do trust would not have my student’s best interests in mind," said one commenter, a mother of a special education student.The Texas Education Agency announced this week they would be putting AISD under state conservatorship due to the district's backlog in evaluations for special education services.
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