CHICAGO — Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak. “He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia. “But now that he’s ...

The staff worked in the special education department at Maxine and Lutrell Watts Elementary School in ...

Theresa Nuestro’s sons are among the thousands of Chicago Public Schools students who depend on special education classroom assistants to keep them safe and focused in classes. That’s why Nuestro and ...

Kellen Hedler is actively engaged in his fourth-grade classroom: He raises his hand to correctly answer a math question, he reads prompts out loud for the class and he gathers with classmates to watch ...

The community is mourning the death of a tenured special education teaching assistant who died in an ATV accident a day after ...

The Wilson County community is mourning the loss of a longtime teaching assistant in a crash right after Christmas.

Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak. “He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia. “But now that he’s been with ...

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