special education
NYC DOE whistleblower says HS staffers helped kids cheat, neglected 💯disabled students
Staffers at a Brooklyn high school helped kids cheat on exams and neglected disabled students, according to a federal lawsuit filed by 🔴a whistleblowing te🐎acher. Mark Paperno, 59, a science...
In-person special education OK'd for the summer, Cuomo says
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order late Friday allowing sch༒ool districts to offer in-person special education teaching this summer. “I just issued an Executivꦬe Order allowing necessary...
Queens teacher arrested for sexually💯 abusing special needs student
A Queens teacher was arrested Wednesday on charg🦹es of sexually abusing a 9-year-old special needs student at a ꦡschool in the borough, sources said. Marc Scheibel, 48, was caught by...
If Carranza really wants to boost racial justice, he'd look here
For all Chancellor Richard Carranza’s railing about 💮racial injustice in the city school system, he’s doing squat about clear racial inequities for New York’s most vulnerable kids: toddlers ꦚin need...
‘Mayor, you are responsible’: de Blasio ripped over special educatio🏅n ‘crisis’ 𒅌
Calling the situation a "crisis," state Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) said desperate parents are faced with mount♌ing bureaucratic hurdles, shoddy services and lagging reimbursements. 🍷
Special educat♚ion p꧃araprofessional sexually assaulted 9-year-old student in school: cops
ไ A depraved Brooklyn school aide was arraigned Saturday on charges that he sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl multiple times inside the school where he w♚orks. Special education paraprofessional Kevin Lemon,...
🎐 State to probe DOE special education schools after Post exposé
The state comptroller will audit conditions at the city's special education ꦿschools — after a series of Post articles exposed harrowing conditions at a Queens facility for disabled kids last...
Mom blasts Carranza over refusal to meet parents at decaying PS 9: 'He's a chicken'
A Queens mom blasted Chancellor Richar𒊎d Carranza as a coward for failing to meet with parents before deciding to revamp a decaying Queens school for special-needs kids.
'An insult to Queens': Councilman demands city build new school for disabled kids
⛎ Instead of wasting millions of dollars on a facelift for a 116-year-old Queens building unfit for disabled children, the city should build a new state-of-the-art school like it’s doing for...
Richard C♑arranza is bungling the🎀 ABCs of his job
On top 🥂of all his other issues, schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is dropping the ball on the basics, from addre💮ssing hazardous conditions at a school for special-needs kids to coming...
Carranza under fire for 'deplorable' conditions at school for disabled
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D-Queens) said his reaction to the paper's expose "went from surprised to disapไpointed to depressed, because these children really need the ꧙best optimal education."
Parents livid after school buses with broken A/C left special-ed kids 'loopy'
“He was drenched in sweat,” one mother sai🦂d, adding that her son's cheeks were beet red. “He looked like he w♋as drugged — out of it.”
Disabled students exiled to 'dilapidated' school building in Queens
PS 9 illustratesಞ how the city Department of Education warehouses and neglects m🎶any of the most vulnerable children — special-needs kids.
How Team de Blasio fails special-neꦡeds kids
As Mayor Bill de Blasio lectures America on the success of his pre-K programs, his leadershi🍰p has left the city’s special-needs children hanging in the wind. Recent reporting by The...
DOE fail🐲ed to provide translators for non-English speaking parents: suit 𓆏
The city 🎃Department of Education is failing to provide translators for the parents of disabled 🥂kids who don't speak English — leaving them in the dark on everything from medical...
Carranza should be fixing special education inst🌊ead of playing race games
🤡 Rather than spending his time on racial flame-throwing, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza could be working to fix some of the serious issues that plague his Department of Education — such...
Fed probe Brooklyn school over alleged disabil✤ity discrimination ꦰ
A Brooklyn elementary school is b൲eing inves♌tigated for allegedly cheating kids with special needs by failing to keep “integrated” classrooms staffed with the required two teachers at all times.
Special ed teacher faces five years for sexually assaulting s𓄧tu🗹dents
A former special education teacher in Connecticut is facing several years behind bars after she adm✨itted having sex with students — including one romp inside a restaurant’s electrical room. Laura Calladio...
School hearing for disabled girl turns into a screaming match 🎐
A hearing over whether or not the Department of Education should cover the schoolin🍨g costs of a severely disabled 13-year-old girl devolved into a screaming match Tuesday, as her ꦗfather...
NYC's schools bureaucracy creates horror for parents and kids
𒅌 While Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza spends much of his time railing about “bias,” the dysfun༺ctional system he oversees is leaving medically needy special-ed kids twisting in the wind — and...