MORE ON: special education

A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations. Lisa Miller, the district’s head... + read more

An ambitious plan to move San Francisco special education students into mainstream classrooms is getting mixed reviews from teachers and sparking a debate over class size as the school district and teachers union try to reach an agreement on a new labor contract. The shift is part of an effort... + read more

Days before Pablo Lopez learned that his son, a 14-year-old special education student in the Fresno Unified School District, would be recommended for expulsion, Superintendent Michael Hanson asked for a “father-to-father” meeting. As they sat in Hanson’s white pickup truck,... + read more

By the time Krista McGhee pulled her son from school in the Riverside Unified School District, she said the fourth-grader had taken to hiding under his desk, been bitten by his classmates and been bruised by a teacher's aide trying to restrain him. McGhee's son, who has Asperger's... + read more