Voices Of Educators: Mia Rotondo

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Mallory Falk

Published May 16, 2016 at 9:52 AM EDT

Mia Rotondo works on an art project with a student. They're dressed up for 80s Day at Ben Franklin Elementary.

This school year there's been a lot of talk about how to fund special education, as the Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board move toward a unified funding formula. But what actually happens inside a special education classroom?

Mia Rotondo is a special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary. She and a paraprofessional, or teaching assistant, help students with the highest needs develop the skills to communicate.

Voices Of Educators: Mia Rotondo

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Mallory Falk

Mallory Falk was WWNO's first Education Reporter. Her four-part series on school closures received an Edward R. Murrow award. Prior to joining WWNO, Mallory worked as Communications Director for the youth leadership non-profit Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools. She fell in love with audio storytelling as a Middlebury College Narrative Journalism Fellow and studied radio production at the Transom Story Workshop.

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