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Norwalk Public Schools touts progress in Special Education
Updated, 3:19 p.m.: Financial information from NPS CFO Tom Hamilton. NORWALK, Conn. — It’s a wonderful document, Joanna Cooper said of a chart created by the Norwalk Public Schools Special Education Department to keep track of progress being made “Norwalk is miles and leaps ahead in terms of organization and figuring out systems, and getting…
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Norwalk SPED parents continue anonymous outreach
NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk Special Education parents are defending their right to speak out anonymously about the issues that concern them, even as Norwalk Public Schools says going through the media is counterproductive to the needed reforms. This stems from a NancyOnNorwalk attempt to attend a meeting a parent had Tuesday with Norwalk Public Schools…
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Norwalk High moms: ‘No one knew’ about High Road School plan
Correction, 11:44 a.m.: Carol Freding responded to Mike Barbis, not Tracy Richards. Also, a quote mistakenly attributed to April Guilbault was removed. NORWALK, Conn. — There’s a cloak and dagger feeling to recent changes at Norwalk Public Schools, Erin Herring said Tuesday. Herring was part of a cadre of Norwalk High School parents adding their voices to…
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Adamowski indoctrinates Norwalk Board of Education Special Education Committee
10:31 p.m.: Updated, PDF added NORWALK, Conn. — Point by point, Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski on Tuesday addressed progress and goals for improving Special Education Department, at times explaining the need for a $3.6 million fund to create in-house services.
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Adamowski lays out 12-point plan to fix Norwalk Special Ed
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk’s transition to a functional and financially viable Special Education (Sped) department would begin this fall with an elementary school demonstration site offering a full spectrum of services if the city finds the $1.2 million necessary to start the transition in June, Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski said this week. With…
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Board of Education hears report on major problems in special education
NORWALK, Conn. − This “may be a low point that we have reached with these findings,” said schools Superintendent Steven Adamowski after listening Tuesday night to the results of a grim evaluation of the quality of Norwalk’s special education programs. “And yet it provides for us the motivation, the inspiration and the ability to know what to…
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Evaluation of Norwalk schools special ed finds it worse than three years ago; Board chairman fumes
Correction, 9:27 a.m.: Word in Lyons quote changed from “achievable” to “un-achievable” NORWALK, Conn. − An evaluation of Norwalk schools’ special education (SPED) system finds it is in worse condition than when it was evaluated in 2012, according to a Hartford-based cooperative education council contracted by the Board of Education to conduct both studies, and…
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Norwalk schools culture seen as an obstacle to growth
NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk’s public schools are “independent city states” with their own rules, with a strong faction of staff members who are resistant to change, according to a 2011 independent study by GE Capital. The report is one of four recent studies (two done by one organization) that strike a consistent note: While there…
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Norwalk special education budget is misleading, expert says
NORWALK, Conn. – It’s been a free-for-all for years in Norwalk’s special education department, which is understaffed and under-funded, according to an outside expert. Margaret MacDonald, Ph. D, of the Capital Region Education Council, (CREC), presented the results of a study of the special education department (done from February to July last year) to the…
