CCS Board Creates Special-Education Administrator Job

As Services Leap 40%, Public Told,

'Litigious Environment' Requires It

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

CCS board President Tim Hayes, right, and Superintendent Bill Crankshaw listen to inputs from board members as this evening's meeting. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – With 14 percent of Cooperstown Central students in special-education programs, up from 10 percent a handful of years ago, the school board this evening created a new administrative position: "director of pupil services."

With the complexity of the services growing, and the "litigious environment" – parents suing who are dissatisfied with the level of service – even school districts Cooperstown's size (831 in K-12, it was reported this evening) are creating such jobs, Superintendent of Schools Bill Crankshaw told his board.

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