Yang and the 18 others in the batch, aged between 15 and 16, all attend a special boarding school for minorities attached to the education college.

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One of the key recommendations of the review was that the Link Centre should become a special school, capable of placing pupils when mainstream education is no longer considered viable in the long term.

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But the delay for special education defunding buys only a few months of time because school districts must finalize their budgeting and hiring for the upcoming year this spring.

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The Penarth learning community scheme involves a new school being built which will include special education needs facilities.

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While state law provides for a school district to pay some private school expenses, for transportation, textbooks and special education, the state alleges that East Ramapo has been too quick to move children mostly Jewish children from the public schools into special education schools run by the Orthodox.

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The stark division has led to a flurry of lawsuits and petitions, and New York State has intervened, blocking the sale of a public school building to a Jewish congregation and warning the board to change the way it uses public special education money for private schools.

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It had previously said a move to Hessle would help the council improve its special needs provision and allow for an additional nursery, post-16 education facilities and residential accommodation at the school.

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