[Missouri-l] Fw: [acb-l] Fw: Disturbing Article from Oregon

[Jeanne Fike]

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> House panel votes to shut Oregon School for the Blind The
> education committee decides visually impaired students should be
> taught in their home communities
> Budget - Education committee decides blind students should attend
> local schools The Oregon School for the Blind should close in
> August and all blind and visually impaired students should be
> educated in their home communities, the House Education Committee
> decided Friday. The vote was 8-2, with all Democrats and half the
> committee's Republicans voting yes to closing the 135-year-old
> Salem school, which currently enrolls 32 students. Only Kim
> Thatcher, R-Keizer, and Ron Mauer, R-Grants Pass, voted no. The
> closure proposal now heads to the Ways & Means Committee for a
> vote. Lawmakers on the education committee heard long hours of
> passionate testimony from students at the school, their parents
> and their teachers about how poorly students were served in local
> schools and how much progress they have made at the School for the
> Blind. The school, which boards students during the week, spends
> more than $125,000 per student each year. Blind and visually
> impaired students told horror stories of how they were treated in
> their local schools. Along with other members of the committee,
> House Education Chairwoman Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, who has
> spearheaded the drive to close the school, called those cases
> "appalling," "completely unacceptable" and "a violation of state
> and federal law." But she and other committee members said they
> believe students can and will be well-served in their communities.
> The roughly $3 million a year the state spends to run the school
> will be redirected to improve and expand services for blind and
> visually impaired students in local schools.
> Saturday, April 11, 2009
> The Oregonian
> - Education committee decides blind students should attend local
> schools
>
> The Oregon School for the Blind should close in August and all
> blind and visually impaired students should be educated in their
> home communities, the House Education Committee decided Friday.
>
> The vote was 8-2, with all Democrats and half the committee's
> Republicans voting yes to closing the 135-year-old Salem school,
> which currently enrolls 32 students. Only Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer,
> and Ron Mauer, R-Grants Pass, voted no. The closure proposal now
> heads to the Ways & Means Committee for a vote.
>
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