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

The Hechinger Report

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension.

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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. They pay educator preparation programs for course credits earned by their free labor as student teachers. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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