For 24 years, Peniana Arguelles has worked as a special education assistant in Los Angeles public schools. At Menlo Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles she feeds children who can’t ...

Williamson County Schools is working to fill special education teaching assistant positions, which is a notoriously hard-to-fill position, resulting in a shortage locally and nationally.

Outgoing Office of Special Education Assistant Director Mary Wiese, who also recently submitted her resignation to the district, said she is concerned for the colleagues she is leaving behind.