* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Harris
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Investigative Hearing - The Status of Special Education Services in the Baltimore City Public School System
FOR the purpose of requesting the State Superintendent of Education and the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief of Staff of the Baltimore City Public School System to address the Baltimore City Council on the school system's failure to provide Court sanctioned makeup services to special education students, the current status of Special Education Services in the public school system, and what measures the school system will adopt to address the needs of special education students in the future.
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Recitals
In August 2005, the U.S. District Court authorized the state to manage 8 school system departments that affect special education services in the Baltimore public school system as a result of the system's failure to provide and document required services to special-education services to students with disabilities in the 2003-2004 school year. In a report filed in court the school system estimated that it owed special-education students 48,000 hours of speech and language therapy, 2,200 hours of psychology, 9,700 hours of occupational therapy, 1,500 hours of physical therapy, 18,000 hours of counseling, and 10,000 hours of social work.
At that time, the state and school system submitted competing consultants' proposals to the Court on how to give special-education students nearly 90,000 hours of makeup services they should have received over the school year and summer recess. Under the school system's proposal, consultants would be paid up to $10 million and would bring their own providers, while under the state's proposal, consultants would be paid $2 million to oversee the delivery of services by school system personnel.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That .
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That .
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to.
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