Eastern Pulaski’s special education services are about to undergo some more changes.
Superintendent Dara Chezem told the school board last week that the Logansport Community School Corporation will stop providing several of its remaining services to Eastern Pulaski at the end of June. “They support us with occupational therapy, physical therapy services, some administrative services, our school psychologists. We hire them to come and evaluate our students,” Chezem explained. “So those are kinds of services that we’ll have to reach out and find providers on our own.”
Chezem said Logansport will continue to offer classroom services for students with severe and profound disabilities at all grade levels, as well as those with moderate cognitive disabilities at the middle and high school levels.
The Logansport Area Joint Special Services Cooperative dissolved last year, forcing Eastern Pulaski to team up with Caston and Pioneer for many of the special ed services it previously provided. Chezem said school officials are meeting with the other two corporations and their shared special ed director Michelle Gillen to put together a plan, to be ready for July 1.
