Highlights

Specific student needs accommodated throughout at-home learning

Highlights • May 15, 2020

Leia Gluckman staff writer As the school adapts to a new normal, teachers and the administration are held responsible for sustaining accommodations for students with 504 plans and IEPs as well as gauging...

Special Education Department, Department of Rehabilitation, provides students with jobs, confidence

Highlights • February 25, 2020

Ava Seccuro co-editor-in-chief When Amy Bell first saw her daughter, Liza, playing with preschool kids on a trampoline and managing all three of them by herself, Bell, like any other mother would be, was...

White House administrators reveal their true colors with cuts to special education programs

Highlights • May 31, 2019

Ava Seccuro staff writer “You’ve got a cut to the [special education] department that’s a 12 percent agency cut, but you have a 15.6 percent increase in your executive salary appropriation.” This...

Club Spotlight: By Your Side contributes to culture of acceptance

Highlights • May 30, 2019

Alya Mehrtash staff writer Every Wednesday at lunch, room S312 is filled with lots of laughter and love. Members of the By Your Side club, students with and without special needs, come together to talk...

Peterson retires after 47 years of teaching

Highlights • May 21, 2018

Lauren Hannani culture editor Forty-seven years ago, Molly Peterson began teaching special education to a small class in northern California. Now, after 17 years of teaching in this district, Peterson...

Life after high school: living with Down syndrome

Highlights • May 26, 2016

Stella Kretschmann, cub writer [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqm6HxnQaeg&w=560&h=315] Luke Zimmerman, a Secret Life of the American Teenager celebrity and alumnus awarded for being, "an...