special education
Thou𓄧sands of NYC special ed students denied services days before school starts ꧃
Thousands of private and homeschooled students 🎀in need of special education services from the city have been deꦡnied crucial resources just a week before school starts.
🍎 Some NYC schools sp🦩ending massive amounts on per-pupil budgets -- but show dismal results
Some ✨New York City public schools spend up to three times as much per student than the citywide average -- but show dismal results, ﷺThe Post has found.
ꦆ Mother and son DOE employees scammed NYC school for kids with disabilities: probe
A mother and son duo employed by the city Department of Education scammed a Manhattan public school for kids with disabilities out of nearly $8,500, inve🍌stigators found.
I'm a one-eyed teacher — my students love my $170K fake eye collection
Her pupils🐭 love these pupils. "I think it's a way to broadcast openly that I do have a disability and that it is not shameful or something✅ that I need...
NYC sp🏅ecial-ed teacꦛher collected 3 months of sick pay from prison
Marina Golfo raked in a quarter of her salary whi༺le sitting in prison cell for three months—after pleading guilty to he🌟althcare fraud.
🧸 Jewish group counters teachers union in special ed. funding spat
♉ The city has been socked with lawsuits from parents accusing them of failing to provide services for students with mental an🍌d physical deficits.
Teacher union fights special educꦦat⭕ion loan bill for NYC private schools
The pow𒉰erful teachers' union is waging a new war against yeshivas and other private schools that receive a big chunk of the $1 billion in public funds to serve students...
ᩚᩚᩚ🉐ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Bragg’s big gamble ... and other commentary
Is a Trump indictment “worth the damage a politicized prosecution” of a former prez will do? asks Eli Lake at The🐎 Free Press.
🍸 Eric Adams wants to send NYC migrants tജo college for free -- and will cost taxpayers $1.2M
Mayor Eric Adams plans to provide 𒆙as many as 100 migrants with 12 months of free classes, room and board at a college in upstate Sullivan County.
Florida teacher accused of hitting special-needs student wi♑th book
Madison Anthony was taken into custody on a felony child abuse charge last Thursꦬday aꦗfternoon in connection to the alleged assault.
Single mom says she was fired from schooඣl job o♉ver TikTok joke
𝓀 A single mom in Minnesota said she was fired from her school job after a 60-year-old coworker flagged a TikTok video she had posted online to administrators.
NYC parents want to oust principal they say 'sullied' school's reputation
More than 100 parents signed onto a lᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚetter this summe🌳r to replace embattled Manhattan School for Children principal Claire Lowenstein.
'Betrayal': De Blasio leaves Adams with 11th-hour shift of special-ed hearings
Without warning or announcement, de Blasio overturned a special-ed sꦦystem that has been💃 in place for decades.
Special education teacher🔯 shortage impacting 48 states 🙈
Some school districts are offering incentives to🧸🍨 attract new teachers.
What it ta💙kes for NYC Department of Education to stop endangering special-needs kids
ꦦ Cheers to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for following up with a new audit in the wake of Susan Edelman's July 2019 Post exp🍎osé on hazardous and unsafe conditions at PS...
PawFundMe: School raising funds for beloved service dog's surgeries
A Maine elementary school is rallying to give a beloved service dog a new leash on life. Ory, a 16-month-old profe🅺ssional pup who works in the Willard School's special educaꦰtion...
Shocking pics show hazards students with disabilities face in NY🦄C school buildings
The city's 26,000ꦑ special needs students are enrolled in schools buildings with hazardous and unsafe conditions -- including peeling paint, 🐭disabled door alarms, cracked playground and a shortage of EpiPens,...
De Blasio's school-reopening rules make some sense — but took painfully long time
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest turnaround on school closures seems a pl𝓰us — but the chaos has left many parents frustrated, furious and downright dizzy. After abruptly closing schools Nov....
ಞ Lawsuit rips schools ⛎for abandoning special needs kids amid COVID-19 pandemic
School districts across the country have abandoned special education kids amid the coronavirus crisis, according to a class action Manhattan federal lawsuit slated﷽ to be filed Friday. The case argues...
NYC needs to offer in-person summer classes for special-ed kids ♏
Lots of parents of special-education and special-needs kids d💦on’t think remote learning is working for their children and are pushin🐲g for in-person summer-school classes. Chancellor Richard Carranza’s first answer, when...