A partnership between a special education program and one of the city’s specialized high schools has students learning important life skills — and learning alongside one another.

In the basement of Staten Island Technical High School, there’s a little cafe where students with special needs are learning jobs skills.

“I’m at the cafe at Barks and Beaks. I’m being a cashier this year,” Matthew D’Oria, 20, a student at P37R, said. “I like to take people’s orders.”

It’s called Barks and Beaks after the mascots of two schools — the bark of a Husky for P37R, a school for students with significant special needs, like autism, and the beak of a seagull, for Staten Island Technical High school, a specialized high school where eight P37R students are co-located.

“We are a District 75 special educ

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