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

The Hechinger Report

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

The Hechinger Report

That means they’re not “reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Maya Angelou,” taking algebra or learning world history, said Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation. Students suspended or expelled early in adolescence are often shunted into remedial classes and never returned to the mainstream.