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After years struggling to fill positions, one school has a full special education staff thanks to a half-dozen parents and caregivers who stepped into the open support staff roles.

For the first time in several years, Hmong International Academy in Minneapolis has a full special education staff — something that Principal Gao Xiong hardly thought possible last summer. The public North Side elementary began the school year with just two-thirds of its support staff hired. In a year when dozens of other schools across the state were also scrambling to recruit for hundreds of ...