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How a New York Catholic school hopes to transform education for students with disabilities

News: Catholic education

Adora Namigadde
Oct 11, 2021
∙ Paid

Elementary and middle school bring back sour memories for Christopher Aponte.

Credit: The John Cardinal O’Connor School.

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“One of his teachers in eighth grade told him there was a word for him, and that was ‘unemployed,’” his mother Laura Aponte recalls. 

Christopher struggled to keep pace with his classmates and fell behind the curriculum. A week before ei…

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