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Disabled TX Students Lower Grad Rates Than Peers

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith
Published February 11, 2019 at 11:35 AM CST
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Senate Education Committee, Texas
Senate Education Committee, Texas
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DISABLED GRAD RATES DECLINE:   Texas students with disabilities graduate at lower rates than their peers – and that gap is widening. That’s what Justin Porter – the Texas Education Agency’s statewide director of special education – told the state Senators during the Texas Senate Education Committee hearings last Friday. 

Justin Porter, Director Special Ed - Texas Education Agency
Credit Courtesy: Texas Senate Committee on Education

“The data for graduation rates trails by a couple of years," explained Porter. "So the most recent that we have here is 2016, but the trajectory there is definitely not going the right direction"

Special education services in Texas have been under scrutiny in recent years after it was found the state effectively and illegally capped the number of students who could access those services.

DISABLED GRAD RATES DECLINE: Texas students with disabilities graduate at lower rates than their peers – and that gap is widening.

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Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.
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