Corey Turner
speaker
928 appearances
95 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Sep
Corey Turner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I want to take you to Cleveland Elementary now.
Let's see if this is open.
So this is the moment we played earlier, Aisha.
That's Principal Condra Allred.
She's showing me the school's old library.
It's now subdivided into smaller areas by these metal shelves.
And in one of these spots, a student with autism is walking in a circle with an adult enjoying a sensory break.
There it is.
We made it work.
Allred wore a pink fanny pack with a walkie-talkie so she could respond to a crisis at a moment's notice.
At Cleveland, she runs a district-wide program for kids with disabilities.
And when we reached her office, there was actually a student there, too, who was calming down with an adult after a meltdown.
It's fitting that even Allred's office is a kind of refuge.
I remember thinking this in the moment.
And it's because children with disabilities have federally protected rights to special education in public schools.
But it's a very different story in private schools.
Allred told me she has seen choice schools in Cedar Rapids either reject a disabled student outright or admit them only to push them out when they become too much work.
It's also clear, though, that families who don't need special services, some of them at least, are taking their kids elsewhere and they're not coming back.
Allred told me she has gone from more than 300 kids at Cleveland to about 250.
Another reason the district suddenly announced Cleveland was on the chopping block, which led to a hard talk between Allred and her family.
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