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

The Hechinger Report

As part of his special education accommodations, he was allowed to use a teacher-created study guide while taking tests. He rarely studied but still got As. Only a third of students with disabilities who enroll in four-year colleges graduate within eight years, according to a 2011 federal study. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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.”.