Spokane Schools Fall Short of Standards

Parents of Special Education Students should check out this report. Especially those attending Audubon Elementary, Arlington Elementary or Garry Middle Schools.

clipped from www.spokesmanreview.com Three Spokane schools miss mark Special ed falls short of state standards Spokane Public Schools is notifying parents of every student at three schools that the district will bus their kids elsewhere because special education students haven't made enough progress in reading. Other districts in the region may be in the same position if they have schools that haven't met state standards and – like those affected in Spokane – receive federal Title I money for serving poor neighborhoods. Audubon and Arlington elementaries and Garry Middle School met the AYP standards in 36 categories last school year or had too few students in any given category to be counted. But too many of their special education students fell short in the reading portion of the WASL, the state's standardized test, district officials said Thursday. Now, the district must give students at the three schools the option of being bused to a neighboring school, at district expense.