The in box. Report from the ISBE meeting on special education class size limits. « Fred Klonsky

The in box. Report from the ISBE meeting on special education class size limits. « Fred Klonsky:

The in box. Report from the ISBE meeting on special education class size limits.

by Fred Klonsky

The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) voted 5
to 1 (Vinni Hall voted no) to put out for public comment
rules that would completely eliminate limits on special
education class size.
The proposed rules would mean there would be NO state limit
on the number of students a special education teacher
is required to serve.
Also there would be NO state limit on the number of students
with disabilities a general education teacher has in their classroom.
While most of the testimony before ISBE was predictable
(administrator groups in favor of repealing all these state rules -
“another mandate” that we “cannot afford” – and teacher and 
parent groups opposed), much of the discussion was on the state 
rule defining a “general education” classroom as one in which
no more than 30 percent of the students have an IEP.
By law, these proposed rule changes were presented to the
Illinois State Advisory Council (ISAC) on the Education of