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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Field Elementary, where nearly one out of every five students is classified as having some sort of a disability, has actually managed to do this.

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

The Hechinger Report

The goal of the class is to introduce students to technology. Poor education for special education students typically starts in elementary school, most often with a student not being given the services to which they are entitled or not being properly diagnosed. Districts have no financial incentive to go above and beyond for them.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.