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Deaf Education Bill Vetoed | KSFY.com - Your Source for News, Sports, Weather, and Community Events Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57104 | Local & Regional News
15-year-old Jorden Curren of Flandreau is already busy planning for college with his mom Deanne.
Jorden is almost completely deaf and attends the South Dakota School for the Deaf in Sioux Falls. Even though he lives out of town, he'd like to attend the school full-time. He said, "But there's no English professor, no math teacher, no reading teacher that's available."
House Bill 1242 would have amended existing laws to ensure deaf and hard of hearing kids get the same attention as public schools, but South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds vetoed the bill Friday. In a letter to the Speaker, he wrote, "This bill muddies responsibility for funding, supervising, and providing special education services, and, in so doing, it conflicts with the requirements of federal law."
It's author, Democratic representative Dan Ahlers of Dell Rapids doesn't see it that way. He says the bill would use the same standard public schools use to specifically describe it's educational opportunities. He said, "So that's really a contradiction when they say it interferes with the federal funding since our schools, public schools receive that same-type of funding for schools with disabilities."
Deanne says many parents are frustrated. She said, "We're denying these children the ability to have an appropriate education because of one entity and the state just doesn't feel like they want to provide it."
15-year-old Jorden Curren of Flandreau is already busy planning for college with his mom Deanne.
Jorden is almost completely deaf and attends the South Dakota School for the Deaf in Sioux Falls. Even though he lives out of town, he'd like to attend the school full-time. He said, "But there's no English professor, no math teacher, no reading teacher that's available."
House Bill 1242 would have amended existing laws to ensure deaf and hard of hearing kids get the same attention as public schools, but South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds vetoed the bill Friday. In a letter to the Speaker, he wrote, "This bill muddies responsibility for funding, supervising, and providing special education services, and, in so doing, it conflicts with the requirements of federal law."
It's author, Democratic representative Dan Ahlers of Dell Rapids doesn't see it that way. He says the bill would use the same standard public schools use to specifically describe it's educational opportunities. He said, "So that's really a contradiction when they say it interferes with the federal funding since our schools, public schools receive that same-type of funding for schools with disabilities."
Deanne says many parents are frustrated. She said, "We're denying these children the ability to have an appropriate education because of one entity and the state just doesn't feel like they want to provide it."
