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Looks like the code of silence is alive in chicago public schools sped dept.

Arne Duncan's home town of Chicago is being accused of under serving special education children by either failing to identify them, or, if identified, not giving them adequate services.  Mary Ann Pollett, principal of Moses Montefiore Special Elementary School, testified before the City Council's Committee on Education and Child Development that officials have discouraged teachers at her school from reporting students' disabilities because it is too expensive to deal with them.

"They deny that that goes on, but it does," Pollett said, with her superiors only a few yards away. "Montefiore is only the tip of the iceberg. This goes deep into a systemic issue that needs to be addressed within the Chicago Public Schools."

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healthy11
healthy11 June 18, 2009
Re: Chicago PS denying eligibilty
As a Chicago-area resident, I am not at all surprised by this situation...It was more surprising that Arne Duncan was chosen as Ed. Secretary, given the fact that so many unresolved problems exist with the CPS where he came from......If the Chicago Public Schools were so wonderful, why did Obama's children attend private schools? Sorry, I digress...

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