December 26, 2013
Michelle Park-Katz, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Masters Programs Coordinator and Special Education and Teacher Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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UIC Receives $1.14 Federal Grant to Address Special Education Teacher Shortage
According to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), public schools nationwide face a shortage of special education teachers, disproportionately affecting minority students particularly in metropolitan areas like Chicago because of the large African American and Latino student body that exist there, and because minority students are placed in special education programs at a disproportionally higher rate than students of other ethnicities.