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We all know the problem. There is a frightening shortage of special education teachers and it’s getting worse. Even prior to the pandemic, 98 percent of school districts and 49 states reported that ...

Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak. “He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia. “But now that he’s been with ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County Schools Special Education Curriculum Specialist Rachel Brown says teaching students in self-contained special education classrooms is her passion and that’s the ...

Shhhh. We’re in an eighth-grade classroom at Cañon Middle School and kids are working on compound and independent and dependent clauses. Jolene Phillips circulates the room, making sure the students ...