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

The Hechinger Report

When they separate you into different classrooms it can just debilitate you,” he said, adding that the content was “dummied down.” During his sophomore year, Nelson and his parents hired an advocate who began attending meetings with them. When he got to high school, it was more like treading water. I could have graduated … with a 4.0

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

The Hechinger Report

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.