Finding F2
Siskiyou County Office of Education (SCOE) administration staffed Special Day Classes with non-credential or under-credentialed personnel in violation of California Education Code, Title 5, Section 3053 requirements for special education teacher accreditation. After reviewing all the documents and interviews, the Civil Grand Jury uncovered during its investigation that approximately 12 SCOE special education teachers, only three to four, are fully credentialed for their current assignments. This comes to an average of 180 students for each credentialed teacher.
Jury report: 2025-2026 The Siskiyou County Office of Education and the Siskiyou County Board of Education Fails Its Most Vulnerable Students · PDF page 10
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Siskiyou County Office of Education and Siskiyou County Superintendent of Schools
Wholly disagrees. Respondents distinguish approximately 80 SCOE SDC students from about 720 students countywide, explain preliminary/clear credentials and other CTC authorizations, and supply teacher tables for multiple school years.
Read official response · PDF page 2Pages 2–5 give a specific legal and numerical rebuttal with checkable authorizations. The tables also acknowledge a permit obtained after one assignment began and a later reassignment followed by a permit. Those temporal exceptions are not fully reconciled with wholly disagree; coverage is partial, and the tables/2026–2027 pending authorizations are agency evidence, not independent certification of compliance.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.