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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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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