Bethany Heintz stood before the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Board and announced her resignation, saying unresolved issues in the district’s special education department drove her to quit her dream job.
She referenced an exodus of special education staff, outlined in a recent report by the University of Kansas, reminding the elected board and district officials she was not the first to raise concerns over a system she described as in turmoil.
“Student and parental rights are being violated, and we are instructed to ignore it,” Heintz, a KCKPS bilingual speech pathologist for four years, said in her damning public remarks last month.
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