L.A. to Keep Special Education Centers Open
The Los Angeles Unified School District will keep open 17 special education centers for students with severe disabilities, rather than integrate most of those 4,800 students into the district's regular schools.
A federal judge late last month approved a request by a group of parents to keep the centers from being changed to regular schools. The parents, who wanted their children to remain in the protected environment of the special schools, reached an agreement to preserve the schools in a mediation session with district officials.
The plan to transform the centers stemmed from a 1993 class action by parents of special education students. The suit, filed under the name of Chanda Smith, a then-student who failed the 10th grade twice after her requests for help were denied, charged the district with failing to provide...
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