Stories

Special Education

Guess What, Equity and Equality Are Not the Same Thing

Two years ago in an Education Trust article, Blair Mann outlined the difference between equity and equality when it comes to student funding and why they are not equal. Should per student funding at...

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IEP

Coffee Break: New Orleans' Ben Kleban on Saying Goodbye to the School Board You Used to Know and Looking to the Future

Say goodbye to the New Orleans school board you used to know. When Senate Bill 432—which called for a return of certain Recovery School District (RSD) schools from the state to the transferring...

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Parents

Coffee Break: Minneapolis' Erin Clotfelter on Special Education, The Belief Gap and Coffee in Bed

Erin Ecklund Clotfelter is the mother of four: 7-year-old twins who were diagnosed with autism at age 2, a 6-year-old recently diagnosed with ADHD, and a 2-year-old. She lives in Minneapolis’...

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Achievement Gap

I Just Couldn’t Trust a Diverse Suburb With My Black Daughter’s Education

People loosely use the term “good schools and diversity” without looking into it or researching what that means. When you get below the surface, it means achievement for the White kids, but not for...

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IEP

When ‘Special’ Feels Like an Insult: Diary of an IEP Kid

I've struggled with learning disabilities my whole life. Not the disability, but being labeled as someone with a disability. I had never felt stupid before, but for some reason getting “special”...

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Special Education

Here's How We Keep Kids in School and Stop Chronic Absenteeism

Each year, the best part of my job is shaking the hands of our almost 8,000 high school graduates. I get to meet amazing students and their families who are eager to begin the next chapter of their...

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