The Special Education department

The Special Education department includes professionals who specialize in working with students who have various disabilities and may need related services. Related services may include speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, adapted physical education and assistive technology. Students must meet eligibility requirements to enroll in a Special Education program.
Transition services provide purposeful, organized goals designed to help students move from middle school to high school and from high school to post-secondary education and/or employment and quality adult living. Regulations require consideration of transition services for students receiving special education by age 14, and each year thereafter.

Facilities Management

Mission StatementTo utilize all available human and material resources to deliver operational and maintenance services which support a safe, qualitative, educational learning environment. We accomplish this through:

• Preventative, controlled and emergency maintenance
• Providing a safe, healthy, and clean school environment
• Renovations and capital construction
• Recycling, trash collection and hazardous waste removal

Director's Message Racine Unified School District has two main functions; teaching students and serving the needs of those who do. Customer service is our business.  Just being in the building and responding to calls is not enough.  As a team we need to focus on Quality, Service, Responsiveness, Communication and Value.  To achieve this staff will:

• Continue ISO processes to support customer satisfaction
• develop flexibility by expanding responsibilities and functions
• be trained on developing positive interpersonal skills for effective communication with others
• adhere to standard of care for maintaining our facilities

General Facilities Information

• 35 Facilities maintained; In excess of 3 million occupied square feet
• 416 acres of maintained turf
• 125 acres of parking lots; over 2,700 parking spaces
• 240 service employees
• 14,000 work orders annually
• Over 100 construction projects managed annually
• A fleet of 53 vehicles and an assortment of major equipment