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

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high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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

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To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 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.

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