One San Francisco public school is addressing three of the district’s biggest challenges with a simple, impactful approach: the “Staircase of Imagination,” which is aimed at neurodivergent students.
Schools are short about 600 teachers, hundreds of special educators and about 200 paraeducators who, by the way, earn a starting salary of about $18 per hour.
Every week or so, Los Angeles parent Clenisha Cargin makes a round of phone calls to LAUSD school officials trying to get help for her young son. Cargin, the mother of a first-grader on the autism spectrum who attends a district school in Westmont, calls the principal. Next she moves on to the school’s special […]