A meeting will be held on March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Middle School library to discuss the reorganization plan for Pupil Personnel Services (PPS). All residents are invited to attend.

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen said at a January work session that the administrative structure of PPS has been reorganized to improve overall supervision of special education and general education programs. PPS includes special education as well as health, guidance, psychological and social work services, speech and hearing services, home instruction and adaptive physical education.

The most controversial part of Dr. Feirsen's plan, according to the parents who spoke at the January 23 Board of Education meeting, involves the elimination of the special education chairperson positions at the middle and high school levels. Some parents say they will miss having someone to contact who knows their child very well and can take immediate action. The plan calls for the creation of a new administrative position, to be known as the Coordinator of Special Education for grades 6 through 12, to replace the existing high school and middle school chair positions.

The plan also calls for the creation of an Assistant Director of Special Education, who will supervise instruction and special education subcommittee chairs and assist the director. This will allow the director to focus more attention on long-range planning and budgeting, program development and evaluation and staff development.

Dr. Feirsen also recommended that principals of the primary schools serve as chairs of the special education subcommittees. At the elementary and secondary school levels, Dr. Feirsen recommended allowing school psychologists to serve as special education subcommittee chairs.