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THE STORY: A yearlong controversy ensues after two special education teachers leave Dedham Middle School for several weeks in December and January to provide two hours of home tutoring, most days per week, for the child of then-School Committee member Joanne Flatley.
| The back story |
A retired teacher and a full-time aide provide substitute coverage during the reassignments, using “very detailed lesson plans,” but middle school teachers file a civil rights complaint on behalf of 13 affected special ed students, saying they were denied the education they are due by not having teachers trained to instruct them.
In December the school district settles the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, agreeing to provide compensatory services “as a result of the denial of a free, appropriate public education to students with disabilities.” Flatley loses her school board seat in the April election, and maintains afterward that she did not receive any special treatment.
THE STORY: A yearlong controversy ensues after two special education teachers leave Dedham Middle School for several weeks in December and January to provide two hours of home tutoring, most days per week, for the child of then-School Committee member Joanne Flatley.
| The back story |
A retired teacher and a full-time aide provide substitute coverage during the reassignments, using “very detailed lesson plans,” but middle school teachers file a civil rights complaint on behalf of 13 affected special ed students, saying they were denied the education they are due by not having teachers trained to instruct them.
In December the school district settles the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, agreeing to provide compensatory services “as a result of the denial of a free, appropriate public education to students with disabilities.” Flatley loses her school board seat in the April election, and maintains afterward that she did not receive any special treatment.
