Exceptional education at Durham Public schools is undergoing an overhaul, according to DPS staff.

At a Monday committee meeting, staff presented new objectives for the district's programs for children with special needs.

Deborah Pitman, DPS's assistant superintendent of Student Support Services, says due to budget cuts, many administrators involved with the exceptional education program have been reassigned to classrooms to fill eight to 10 open teaching positions related to exceptional education.

DPS offers numerous programs for students with special needs. Those programs include: reading intervention programs, special teaching programs for students that are "homebound," and bedside programs for students in the hospital.

Since DPS is reassigning its current staff, school board members asked staff for a breakdown of the program's new structure.

Pitman responded saying staff would present the information at or before the school board's next regular meeting.