News from Los Angeles Times: A special education teacher’s assistant and foster care provider in Riverside County was part of a child pornography ring that spanned three counties in Southern California, prosecutors said Tuesday. John David Yoder, 43, of Desert Hot Springs, who until recently worked at Desert Hot Springs High School, is charged with [...]
News from News & Observer: DURHAM — Children enrolled in North Carolina’s state-supported early education programs have a reduced chance of being placed in special education by third grade, Duke University researchers say. The findings suggest that state investment in quality early childhood programs can prevent costly special education later. The study is published Tuesday [...]
News from WISH-TV: Provided Photo/Allen County Sheriff’s Dept. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A former special education teacher at Woodlan Jr/Sr High School pleaded guilty to a charge of child seduction on Thursday. Paige E. Mostella was arrested in August 2014 after a student told police officers about encounters he had with Mostella when he was 17-years-old. On [...]
News from Irish Independent: Linda Daly Published 18/08/2014 | 14:53 smiling girl showing painted hands Adam Cowzer and Amy Conroy, aged five, pictured at the launch of Marks & Spencer’s partnership with Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI) for the back to school period. Down Syndrome Ireland collection boxes are situated at till points in selected M&S [...]
Special education students, high school buddies relax at play dayNews from KERO-TV 23: BAKERSFIELD – The 20th Annual Special People Play Day took place today at Garces Memorial High School. About 600 Garces students teamed up with over 500 special education kids from the Kern County Superintendent’s office and the Bakersfield School District to celebrate. “There’s not a [...]
News from San Jose Mercury News: A special-education teacher in the Torrance Unified School District has been removed from the classroom after infuriating parents with a Facebook post saying she was about to enter a meeting with “crazy parents” to discuss an autistic student whom the teacher describes as a “hot mess.” The teacher, Suzanne [...]
Shortfall expected in special education budget for Wanaque’s high schoolNews from NorthJersey.com: During the Lakeland Regional High School (LRHS) Board of Education (BOE) meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 4, Trustee Suzanne Raoul said that the district’s special education program is expecting a funding shortfall between $ 33,000 and $ 100,000 for the 2012-13 school year. As [...]
Mary T. McMullen, special education teacherNews from Baltimore Sun: (Handout photo ) August 19, 2012|By Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun Mary T. McMullen, a Millersville special education teacher and athletics booster, died Friday at University of Maryland Medical Center of scleroderma after a lengthy illness. She was 64. Mary Wissel was born March 14, 1948, [...]
Spending for a Special Education Program is InvestigatedNews from New York Times: June 6, 2012, 8:47 a.m. A program in special education for 3- and 4-year-olds is costing New York City big bucks. The New York Times’s David Halbfinger reports that the city is paying private contractors more than $ 1 billion this year to [...]
California to seek special waiver from federal ‘No Child’ education …News from The Republic: SAN FRANCISCO — California education leaders agreed Thursday to join 37 other states that have sought relief from the most strenuous requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which expects all students to be at grade level in math [...]
