(Austin, TX) — The Texas Education Agency has a new special education director.
Justin Porter was hired as statewide director of special education on Friday, the first person to hold that title in nine months.
The TEA is overhauling the way it manages the education of thousands of students with special needs.
A federal probe last winter claimed that the state was illegally denying disabled students access to necessary educational tools and services.
The agency says there will be hundreds of thousands more kids in special education by 2021.
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