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Article: Jordan School District is ignoring the special needs of children
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2009
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On Aug. 25, Utah's Jordan School District Board of Education met
in a closed session to review appeals of parents who requested that
their children attend the new Kauri Sue Hamilton School in Riverton.
This newly built school is designed for the education of students
with severe multiple disabilities.
In 2007, the east side residents of the Jordan School District
area voted to secede from the largest school district in the state
and create what is now the Canyons School District. At the time of
the decision to split the districts, Jordan Valley School, located
in Midvale, was the only self-contained school in the Jordan
District that served this population of students.
Both the Kauri Sue ...