SD committee kills deaf school closure bill

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SD committee kills deaf school closure bill - KTIV NewsChannel 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports

The Senate education committee has killed a bill aimed at changing the South Dakota Constitution to allow the state to close the School for the Deaf.

Gov. Mike Rounds tried to close the campus last year and shift funding to outreach programs that educate deaf and hearing-impaired students in school districts around the state. The move would have saved an estimated $1.2 million a year.

But the parents of 8 deaf or hearing-impaired children from South Dakota and Minnesota filed a federal class-action lawsuit in July saying the state's constitution obligates it to make a public school for the deaf available.

Bill sponsor Sen. Al Novstrup, R-Aberdeen, said Thursday that the parties have come up with an education plan that makes the bill unnecessary.
 
YAY... that's awesome. Now they need to publicize it as an option. Especially the high school. They really need to promote it as " your kid will learn how to be independant" and "this is an awesome option for dhh kids. Sick of dealing with teachers who don't know anything about teaching dhh kids? Send them to the School for the Deaf.
I also think that another thing that would increase enrollment would be letting kids from bordering areas of a different state (who are closer to that deaf school then their state's deaf school) attend.
 
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