School Board to Discuss Special Ed Study

After having a more efficiently, the San Bruno Park School District board will now begin the process of taking up the study’s recommendations.

The study, which was funded with proceeds from the sale of the Carl Sandberg site, called for a sweeping overhaul of the district’s special education program. Some of its main recommendations were to hire a special education director and replace contractors with in-house staff.

Currently, Superintendent Dr. David Hutt directs special education, which the study found to be taking away from the program’s effectiveness because Hutt hasn’t been able to pay enough attention to the program’s needs.

“He hasn’t been able to give the program the kind of hands-on attention that special education needs,” Lee Funk, director of special education for School Innovations & Advocacy, the consultant that conducted the study, told Patch in an interview.

The school board will be discussing the recommendations at at 7 p.m., although it is not clear what direction the board may take.

In other discussion, the board will be hearing presentations on the school district’s as well as on how the district has been spending money on capital projects that have been funded by proceeds from the sale of the Carl Sandberg site.