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...Kaufmann said he believes that the American public should wait to hear the rest of the testimony. Referring to the grounds for impeachment and how they've been interpreted to-date, he said, "'High crimes and misdemeanors' has a sense...
...basic aim in this bill is to see that every child that needs a special education can get it, and that no child who does not need it is forced into a special class," Peggy Maxwell said. Maxwell and Connie Kaufmann, of Bartley's staff, were among the people who did the research for the bill...
...MENTALLY RETARDED especially, this change in terminology means a vast change in philosophy. "Under the old system, retarded children were classified as either trainable or educable according to their IQ's," Kaufmann said. "However, that left a vast body of children who were called either ineducable or untrainable, and for whom nothing was done...
Under the provisions of the bill, no child will be forced out of an institution. That is, Kaufmann says, a child's physical or medical needs take precedence over education. However, the bill makes the Department of Education responsible for the education of institutionalized children...
...Despite Kaufmann's disclaimers, some teachers in normal schools fear that this bill will force the removal of handicapped children from institutions in order to place them in regular schools. "They're going to close the institutions and flood our classes with handicapped kids, and we're overworked already," one teacher at a public school in Somerville said. Parents, too, were afraid at the outset that after they had struggled to get their children admitted to an acceptable custodial situation or provate school, they were going to be forced to withdraw them in favor of a public education...