ST. PAUL, Minn. — When special-education teacher Rachel Wannarka spoke to a reporter in 2018 about required services she said St. Paul Public Schools wasn’t providing her students, she hoped it would serve as a call to action.
“I was just trying to help,” she said. “We were hoping that they would give the students with disabilities what their IEPs said they were supposed to get.”
Instead, the third-year teacher said, her principal yelled at her and called her “untrustworthy.” And, after two poor performance evaluations, she was denied tenure and involuntarily transferred to another school.
