Special education students and their families will have to leave their neighborhood schools as San Jose’s largest school district consolidates classes.
San Jose Unified School District is closing Special Day Class (SDC) programs at Graystone, Schallenberger and Empire Gardens elementary schools next school year due to low enrollment. The program helps students with a specific diagnosis such as autism and others with individual needs. Parents said the part of the program serving individual needs will only be available at three of the district’s 27 elementary schools: Washington, Grant and Allen at Steinbeck.
Parent Jordan Wong was shocked by the abrupt way the district informed parents about the program ending and parents’ lack of involvement in the decision…