Tennessee’s Special Education Population Is Changing Under Its New Academic Intervention Program
February 5, 2018
By: Marta W. Aldrich
Source: Chalkbeat
Just five years ago, Tennessee students who were poor, minority, or male were disproportionately labeled as having a learning disability that would stick with them through their school career.
Today, the rates of minority and non-minority students identified with disabilities are nearly equal statewide, while the gap between males and females being placed in special education has decreased. Also notably, the number of students identified with specific learning disabilities has dropped by a third.
State officials are hailing a personalized learning program…