More than 20 complaints have been filed against the Clark County School District alleging the district is denying basic literacy instruction for students with dyslexia, many of whom are in foster care.
The Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada (LACSN) filed the due process complaints on Thursday on behalf of students in foster care. The Legal Aid Center claims CCSD is violating state and federal education disability law by failing to adopt an intensive literacy program for these dyslexic students.
“These students range from 2nd to 12th grade, and have been promoted through CCSD without learning to proficiently read. Among them are an eleventh grader who cannot spell words like ‘hot’ and ‘pet’ yet receives zero minutes of direct reading instruction, and a fifth grader who told his teacher every day, ‘I can’t read,’ and performs at a pre-kindergarten level without any specialized intervention,” Legal Aid Center said in a news release…