Kansas School for the Deaf struggles with national shortage of specialized teachers

Kansas School for the Deaf struggles with national shortage of specialized teachers

Kansas deaf education task force member Kylie Stewart, center, said the state needed to address the teacher shortage in deaf education. She said the School for the Deaf student deficits in reading and math assessments needed to be a priority of the Kansas State Board of Education and the Kansas Legislature. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)OLATHE — Lack of a Kansas-based bachelor’s degree program to prepare specialists in teaching of deaf or hard…