Commissioner Pender Makin lays out a 3-year plan to transition responsibility for providing disability services to 3- and 5-year-old children from the Department of Education to local school districts.
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Federal government examining Maine’s Child Development Services
Education Commissioner Pender Makin told employees a federal agency is ‘interested’ after multiple reports showed CDS is failing disabled children.
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Maine is failing its youngest kids in need of disability services
Children are spending weeks, months, sometimes a year waiting for help from Child Development Services that the state agency says it cannot provide.