Champaign school district files plans for reform

CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign school district will assign staff members to students who are failing a class or missing school, use MySpace to contact truant students, provide more cultural training to teachers and give more information and support to parents of black special-education students.

Those measures are a few outlined by the district in a plan to speed up its progress on meeting consent decree goals at the high schools and in special education. The "acceleration plan" was filed earlier this week with the federal district court.

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