Glen Stephens is a 25 year veteran of public, charter, and private schools. He has held North Carolina teaching licenses in high school biology, middle school science, and general curriculum exceptional children. While he is a graduate of the Partners in Policymaking program, his greatest accomplishments came as a husband and father to Gabriel (deceased) and John, both with disabilities.
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Students with disabilities forgotten in extreme political battles
According to North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 2022-2023 assessment data, there is not a single assessed subject in which even 40% of North Carolina’s students with disabilities scored “Grade Level Proficient” or above. Stated another way, in 2022-2023, 84.3% of North Carolina’s students with disabilities could not read proficiently in grades 3 through 8,...