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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. I wish that special education services were more respected and people knew how much special education teachers do.”.

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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

The Hechinger Report

Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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