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Teaching disabled includes health duties

Thursday February 17 by Claudia bourneusatoday
If diabetic Devin Jackson slips into a coma at school, it will likely be her fourth-grade teacher, not a nurse or paramedic, who administers the injection that saves her life. More than 500 staff members and every bus driver in the Loudoun County, Va., district recently learned to administer glucose injections after the girl's family won that right through the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).





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