For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t ...

CHICAGO — Beatrice Garcia credits the special education classroom assistants at Henderson Elementary in Englewood for helping her son speak. “He hasn’t been verbal,” said Garcia.

Williamson County Schools is working to fill special education teaching assistant positions, which is a notoriously hard-to-fill position, resulting in a shortage locally and nationally.