Disability Scoop

Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education’s special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing “immediate harm” to students with disabilities, advocates warn. Nearly a month after the Education Department moved to lay off nearly every staffer in its Office of Special Education Programs, some of the nation’s most prominent disability and special education groups say that the message from the Trump administration is clear. “Given the recent actions of the administration, the only conclusion that we can draw is that this administration doesn’t believe in educating children with disabilities,” said Chad Rummel, executive director of the Council for Exceptional Children, or CEC.

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