Offering special education a goal Organizers of new Naperville Catholic school want to serve as many students as possible.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February, 2004 by Hartman, Kari

Byline: Kari Hartman Daily Herald Staff Writer When organizers of a new Catholic school open the doors to their Naperville facility, they want it to include some type of in-house special education program. Organizers of the Naperville Regional Catholic School say they want to serve the needs of as many students as possible.

But they know they could face some challenges to meet that goal. It's difficult for parochial schools to offer special education services in-house. Most local Catholic schools have few, if any, special education programs because of a lack of funding and ...