School mission: social service agency

Acton's school mission has had a fairly profound change over the last few years, and I'm not talking just about our newly expanded regional school system.

At the "budget Saturday" meeting on February 1, 2014, a parade of school administrators led by Liza Huber, the Director of Pupil Services, explained how the role of the schools as a social services agency has evolved. Huber, whose primary responsibility is to oversee special education (SPED) services, now has several other areas of concern related to how they may affect student learning.

Huber said that "today, I believe we act as a social service agency." And the data she showed backed up that belief.

Students are now identified and tracked for any type of impediment to learning, and there are several potential ones....

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