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# District appoints new special education leaders
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/district-appoints-new-special-education-leaders/
- Published: 2002-05-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:17:00.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

New leadership was hired earlier this month for special education services in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

Cindy Atlas was appointed director of special education, while Mary Ellen Toomey will serve as the new coordinator of special education. Both positions are effective July 1.

Atlas comes from San Diego, where she held a similar position in that city’s school district.

Toomey is from New York and has been a special education teacher since 1975.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 14, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051402.pdf?ref=smdp.com)