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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Even before starting high school in 2009, Nelson knew he wanted to go to college. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost. But it wasn’t an easy path.