special education
nounDefinition of special education
: classes or instruction designed for students with special educational needs
Examples of special education in a Sentence
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Debbie Signor is a retired special education teacher. — courant.com, "Community News For The Enfield Edition," 30 Aug. 2019 The special education teacher would need finger puppets, jumbo crayons and sidewalk chalk for her 5- and 6-year-olds. — Max Cohen, USA TODAY, "'Ridiculous': Teachers spend their own money to buy supplies for first day of school," 29 Aug. 2019 John Conley, a Pioneer special education teacher, says. — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, "MSU player's dad lived secret life as drug dealer. Now he cheers for son from prison," 29 Aug. 2019 Blake Trerife teaches special education classes and coaches soccer in Le Roy, New York, and often travels up and down the coast to catch Orlando City matches. — Julia Poe, Pro Soccer USA, "Orlando City forward Chris Mueller invests in, embraces fan experience," 27 Aug. 2019 An audit conducted by an outside consultant and released in May 2018 found that services offered to District 64 students enrolled in special education classes declined from 2016 to 2018. — Heather Cherone, chicagotribune.com, "Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 dissolves special education committee," 20 Aug. 2019 Christine Amundson, a special education teacher at Winfield Elementary, has 15 years of experience teaching and moved to CCPS when her family moved to the area from New Jersey. — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, "‘I think we’ve chosen well and so have you’: Carroll schools welcome new teachers," 15 Aug. 2019 Alexandria Osteen is a special education teacher at Dorothy Stinson Elementary School in Safford. — Serena O'sullivan, azcentral, "Arizona teachers turn to social media for help with school supplies," 1 Aug. 2019 Urrea had hoped to represent students in English-as-a-second-language and special education classes, as well as those in the district’s magnet programs, with this change. — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, "A split school board votes to eliminate class rank in Anne Arundel County," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'special education.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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