Every so often, Margo Jimenez says, her husband would come home from work with injuries. "One day, he came home with a black eye, his glasses were broken, and he had bites on his arm," Margo recalled.

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 ...

North Carolina schools are increasingly struggling to hire and retain qualified special education teachers, leaving some students without properly trained faculty who know how to provide specialized ...