June 6, 2018, (Canada) Global News: Quebec schools get failing grade for treatment of students with special needs https://globalnews.ca/news/4257876/quebec-schools-get-failing-grade-for-treatment-of-students-with-special-needs/ A new report by the Quebec Human Rights Commission gives the province a failing grade on the organization of educational services for special needs students. The report shows close to half of the province’s students with special needs and learning disabilities aren’t graduating…. “Forty per cent of them will not graduate.” The commission has issued 22 recommendations, including a complete overhaul and reorganization of services for Quebec’s 200,000 special needs students…. “We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of children and parents who are caught up in the bureaucracy and the disconnect between the health care system and the school system,” CRARR’s Fo Niemi said, while calling on the commission to do more, and stop dismissing complaints….
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