“POWERFUL…INSPIRING…LEFT BEHIND IS AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO HELP DYSLEXIC KIDS”

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN

“WONDERFUL & POWERFUL… MOMS WHO WON’T GIVE UP”

DOMINIC PATTEN, DEADLINE

Approximately 200,000 New York City public school students are dyslexic, yet there is no public initiative that provides the specialized skill and care necessary for these learners.

Frustrated that they had to remove their own kids from the public school system, a group of determined moms band together to do something that’s never been done before – open New York City’s first public school for dyslexic students. The journey is not a smooth ride, and they face both institutional and personal hurdles as they try to upend a system .

A new mayoral candidate bolsters their fight after he reveals his own dyslexia. But will they be able to convince a bureaucratic education system to overhaul outdated politics to ensure a brighter future for the city’s dyslexic youth?

Left Behind is the inspiring story of a group of determined moms who band together to create the first public dyslexic school in the largest school district in America, New York City .

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