{"id":91759,"date":"2024-05-21T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=91759"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T18:19:37","slug":"why-children-with-disabilities-are-missing-school-and-losing-skills-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/05\/21\/why-children-with-disabilities-are-missing-school-and-losing-skills-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Why children with disabilities are missing school and losing skills [Turner]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/05\/15\/1247795768\/children-disabilities-special-education-teacher-shortage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why children with disabilities are missing school and losing skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from npr.org by Cory Turner<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The fact that a district could struggle so mightily with special education staffing that students are missing school \u2013 that&#8217;s not just a Del Norte problem.\u00a0A recent federal survey\u00a0of school districts across the U.S. found special education jobs were among the hardest to staff \u2013 and vacancies were widespread. But what&#8217;s happening in Del Norte is extreme. Which is why the Lenovers and five other families are\u00a0suing the school district, as well as state education leadership, with help from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe district sits hidden away like a secret between Oregon, the frigid Pacific and some of the largest redwood trees in the world. It&#8217;s too isolated and the pay is not competitive enough, Harris says, to attract workers from outside Del Norte. Locally, these aides \u2013 like the one Emma requires \u2013 earn about as much as they would working at McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why children with disabilities are missing school and losing skills &#8212; from npr.org by Cory Turner The fact that a district could struggle so mightily with special education staffing that students are missing school \u2013 that&#8217;s not just a Del Norte problem.\u00a0A recent federal survey\u00a0of school districts across the U.S. found special education jobs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,343,211,46,285,382,560,66,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-education","category-funding-grants","category-k-12-related","category-legislation-legislatures","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-parents-guardians","category-student-related","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91761,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91759\/revisions\/91761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}