This article was published on Des Moines Register by Sarah Kay LeBlanc on May 10, 2021. At the start of the year, Colleen Tendall spent days begging businesses to give her special needs students a chance to learn job skills. She wasn’t even requesting her students be paid, the Van Meter high school special education teacher said. […]
This article was published on PR Newswire by Council of Chief State School Officers on May 6, 2021. The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today announced that Juliana Urtubey, an elementary school special education teacher, is the 2021 National Teacher of the Year. Urtubey, an educator for 11 years, teaches at Kermit R. Booker, […]
This article was published on Chalkbeat New York by Jacqueline Neber on May 5, 2021. This is part of an ongoing collaborative series between Chalkbeat and THE CITY investigating learning differences, special education, and other education challenges in city schools. Remote learning has proved uniquely challenging for the roughly 200,000 New York City public school students classified with disabilities […]
This article was published on Chalkbeat Colorado by Ann Schimke on May 3, 2021. The statewide dyslexia screening pilot program authorized by a 2019 Colorado law will launch this summer with three schools — short of the five schools state officials originally envisioned. The schools are Ignacio Elementary in southwestern Colorado, Singing Hills Elementary in […]
This article was published on Bucks County Courier Times by Ashley R. Williams on May 3, 2021. Normally, raining on someone’s parade is a surefire way to spoil an already overcast day. That was far from the case for a group of energetic Pennridge High School students and staff, who couldn’t have been more eager to […]
This article was published on KUT by Claire McInerny on April 30, 2021. Some employees in Austin ISD’s special education department received letters this week saying their jobs were being eliminated as part of a reorganization. Elizabeth Casas, AISD’s chief academic officer, said Friday she needed to take drastic measures because a “toxic work environment” had […]
This article was published on Michigan Radio by Virginia Gordan on April 29, 2021. The Michigan Department of Education is offering an option to help school districts deal with what State Superintendent Dr. Michael Rice calls a “critical shortage of special education teachers in many Michigan school districts.” The MDE will allow a time limited […]
This article was published on Alabama Politcal Reporter by John H. Glenn on April 27, 2021. Down Syndrome Alabama is demanding answers for why incentives for special education teachers were left out of the Teacher Excellence and Accountability for Mathematics and Science Salary Schedule Program, a proposed incentive program to attract more teachers for hard-to-staff subjects […]
This article was published on WTOL 11 by Emily Cohen on April 26, 2021. TOLEDO, Ohio — The Autism Society is hoping it can change both the name and the attitude surrounding autism. Kate Schwartz, the executive director of the northwest Ohio group says words matter and in this case, she says words matter a whole lot. “Everybody […]
This article was published on The 74 Million by Barbara Duffield, Lindsay Jones and Janet Murguía on April 22, 2021. For students facing the greatest barriers to school success and long-term stability, the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act was a positive step forward. The law dedicates $800 million to the identification, enrollment and […]