Goodrich – Amid the controversy in student services at the school district, the district is in the process of going through a state mandated compliance review required by all districts in the state of Michigan.
In August, three families in the district filed complaints with the state regarding the district’s lack of compliance for special needs students in student services. The state put Goodrich District officials on notice in September to correct the complaints filed.
At the Nov. 26 board meeting, Cherie Snyder, the director of compliance and special services administration from the Genesee Intermediate School District, gave a presentation to explain the process of the compliance review.
CIMS (Continuous Improvement Monitoring System) has started to pick through student files at random to make sure IEP’s (Individualized Education Programs) for special needs students are being implemented properly.
‘We want to make sure student IEPs are being handled right and want to make sure these kinds of students are progressing. We will be looking at how well the IEP teams made their decisions at student IEP meetings and making sure these IEPs are being consistently implemented,? said Snyder.
Snyder said surveys will also go out to the parents of specials needs students to help implement the district’s compliance review.
‘This review will take a ton of informal gathering to complete the process thoroughly,? said Snyder. ‘It requires that staff be involved in the research. The state gives money to all districts in the state to help defray costs.?
Snyder said the compliance review will be finished in April, and the district will have two years to implement an improvement plan.