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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. He graduated in 2013. Michelle McLaughlin said Michael’s education did not prepare him for college or career. Sign up for our newsletter.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

The Hechinger Report

Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We 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. Some lose interest, drop out or wind up in jail.