A yellow sheet of lined paper lists a multitude of community fundraisers and hands-on projects. Written in Dena Whaling’s neat print, one phrase appears again and again: #belikeKeegan.
Porter County Education Services, which meets the needs of Porter County’s special education students, is considering a restructuring of its staffing and will hold a town hall meeting Tuesday to give information to the public, particularly parents of participating students, and receive feedback.
Schools across the country struggle to hire enough special education teachers and paraprofessionals. The shortage is so severe at one Indiana school that parents and educators worry its unsafe.
The special education program is currently run through Porter County Education Services. Ultimately, the school corporation is hoping for a model in which they employ teachers and staff directly.
Chesterton police said they were contacted Feb. 8 by a therapist at the Special Education Learning Facility in Valparaiso that a 13-year-old, seventh-grade student had not been to school for