The state of Iowa must provide additional education for boys living at the Boys' State Training School, a state-run juvenile home in Eldora, but it won't be forced to offer remedial services to the hundreds of youth who left the program in recent years. The agreement follows investigations which found the Iowa Department of Human Services failed to provide the minimum level of educational services to special-education students at the home. A similar finding last year at the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo resulted in the state setting aside $1 million to pay for "compensatory education" for dozens of youth.
Source: The Des Moines Register
Posted on: June 18, 2014