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Colusa County · 2025–2026 Civil Grand Jury

Colusa County Civil Grand Jury Special Education Investigation Report

Examines IEP service delivery, staff training, parent communication, student safety, placement capacity, assistive technology and dignity. Eight findings and eight recommendations call for record integrity, tracking/remedies, training, oversight, reporting and service capacity. The joint CCOE/SELPA response disputes systemic characterizations and describes planned changes. Its F2/F3/F4/F6 paraphrases differ materially from the published findings; those nominally numbered audit links are explicitly unscorable. This unchanged annual report contains the investigation and glossary on physical PDF pages 17–23 (printed pages 10–16).

Response available · Colusa County Superintendent of Schools and Assistant Superintendent of Special Education/SELPA

Joint CCOE and SELPA response to special education investigation

The joint response disputes systemic service failures while describing a written IEP policy, AbleSpace rollout, five-day mid-year onboarding, expanded leadership/internal audits and compliance reporting. R6 and R8 contain mixed implementation/refusal positions. Findings F2, F3, F4 and F6 respond to materially different paraphrases than the published report and are unscorable for mapping ambiguity, not scored as agreement/disagreement with the published findings.

See the synthesis and item-by-item audit

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This page provides a plain-language orientation to the report and connects it with related civic questions. The official PDF is the authoritative source for complete findings, recommendations, responses, and context.