How to Use special education in a Sentence

special education

noun
  • But the district is in the throes of a special education staffing crisis.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 15 May 2024
  • Down the carpeted hallways, past the sixth- and seventh-grade wings, past the special education area and the library.
    Steven Rich, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The third boy was named as an assisted witness to the alleged rape, and placed in a special education program.
    Gabrielle Nolin, NBC News, 20 June 2024
  • Luke didn’t have a qualified special education teacher for most of the last school year.
    Jake Karalexis, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Dewayne set out on the first walk in 2021 to raise money for a special education teacher in Texas who was battling cancer.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Joyce, 36, is a special education teacher and Oceanside Unified School District board member who has lived in the city for 13 years.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, Martinez, the special education teacher and most distinguished runner on the team, set out to finish first.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Third, the state should increase special education weights to more fully and fairly serve all learners.
    David C. Banks, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
  • Code Can Bridge will try to attract special education teachers who are interested in code and want to pass it on to their students.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Joyce, a special education teacher and Oceanside Unified School District trustee, took the oath of office with his two children at his side.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Many of the teacher openings there are in special education, which districts across the country have struggled to staff for years — even before the pandemic.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Right now the school only has one special education teacher.
    Alex Baumhardt, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The artist worked as a graphic designer in both New York City and Dayton before teaching special education and art.
    cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • His is not the only bill to highlight special education services this session.
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2023
  • After being told the school could not provide a full-time special education teacher for them, Shaffer sought other ways to help.
    Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2022
  • His mother, a special education teacher, took him and his two younger sisters to marches and protests – from workers’ rights rallies to teacher strikes – from a young age.
    oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
  • His mother works as a special education teacher at Trabuco Hills and his dad is still in the shipping business.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The union has been negotiating with the school district for a new contract, but both sides have yet to come to an agreement about class size, special education caseloads, health care policies and salary.
    Aubrey Gelpieryn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Wisconsin already has lots of school choice: four voucher programs (one each for Milwaukee, Racine, the rest of the state, and special education students).
    Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Parks, 27, a special education teacher in Springfield, Illinois, was about 18 weeks pregnant and had been feeling very sick with a fever for days, but tests for Covid and strep came back negative.
    Anne Thompson, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Concurrently the state would tap a special education reserve fund for $8.5 billion shore up the state budget.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024
  • Olathe, Yeager said, has moved nearly $100 million from its general fund to cover special education in the past three years.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • If special education services worsen, the costs could run even higher.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The school is also home to 30 special education students, and for them, transitioning to a new school will bring added difficulties.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Those that remain unfilled are mostly in hard-to-staff areas, such as special education, math and bilingual classrooms.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Ariel takes special education classes and now wears thick glasses.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The programs provide an alternative for school districts that can’t meet the needs of special education students.
    Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Some types of teachers – math, sciences, special education – were in short supply for years before the pandemic.
    USA Today, 12 June 2023
  • Mark Goldman, 54, spent years working for his family's real estate and restaurant business before leaving that career to work in special education.
    Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • In the Assembly, Vining introduced legislation to give more state funding for special education, for students and to get more qualified teachers into classrooms in hopes districts and their taxpayers wouldn't have to rely as much on referendums.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2024

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