Jefferson Parish Special Education
Jefferson Parish Special Education
In August 2005, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±, along with attorneys from the Southern Disability Law Center and the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, obtained a class-wide settlement agreement affecting all special education students with Emotional Disturbance in Jefferson Parish.
The agreement, benefiting as many as 1,000 children, requires major systemic changes including:
- improvements in the education provided to those with emotional disturbances,
- reform of the parish's overly harsh disciplinary procedures,
- counseling for emotionally disturbed children,
- and the provision of job training and other services to help high school students transition into jobs upon graduation.
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