Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Rotary hears special education update

ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary learned Wednesday there are 578 students in the two-county area which are served by the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District in special education services.

Marge Leaf, director of special education for the GOISD, and Rotary member Bruce Mayle, superintendent of the GOISD, told the members of the impact committee special education has on disabled from birth to 26 years old in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties.

In Ontonagon County, Leaf said, the Ontonagon Area School District has 80 special education students and the Ewen-Trout Creek Distr...