SCHOOLS NOTEBOOK Parents Protest Plan to Close Special Education ...

A plan to phase out Montgomery County's secondary learning centers, programs in eight middle and high schools that teach special education students in separate classes, is meeting with determined resistance from parents. County school officials say their goal is to move hundreds of moderately disabled special education students closer to the academically rigorous classrooms that serve other students, a concept known as inclusion and embraced in schools across the country. Montgomery schools have been comparatively slow to meet federal standards for exposing special education students to mainstream education. .

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