The Education Report Big changes in Oakland’s special ed department

The Education Report

Big changes in Oakland’s special ed department

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 at 3:42 pm in special education
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The Oakland school district’s special education department is about to undergo some serious staffing changes. Not only is its executive director, Lisa Ryan Cole, leaving, but so are elementary school coordinator Kimberly Noble and personnel coordinator Iris Wesselmann.

To top it off, all of the coordinators’ administrative assistants have been bumped into other jobs, according to Ryan Cole. (More on bumping — a huge issue right now – later.) “There are a lot of changes, and I want to believe they are going to be positive for the kids in this district,” she said.

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