Special Education

“Twalet, mama.” This was my daughter’s way of telling me she needed to use the potty. She was 4 1/2 years old, couldn’t speak English, newly adopted and bl

I’ve been offered one of those life-changing opportunities where I know that the person who I was when I left won’t be the same person when I return. Asha

At 5, my son, Niko, was still in diapers. He didn’t know how to communicate. He wouldn’t let anyone touch him. I was afraid for him to learn new skills bec

It’s March, and all over the country, students and their families are waiting anxiously to receive emails and letters about the status of school applicatio

The New York Post recently profiled Wesley Clark, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights. The article describes a “supposedly progressive B

I remember the first time I spoke up at a national conference in front of my colleagues. We were at a national meeting of a few hundred urban special educa

Mark Rynone considers his passion for education as an outgrowth of family values. After all, his mother, brother and a handful of other relatives work as t

To hear tell from charter opponents, students with disabilities and charters don’t mix. Their story about charters and special-needs students is simple: Ch

For the last decade, IDEA Public Schools has been steadily improving student outcomes in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most educationally underserved a