USA Today Amy Cupp was alarmed when her sixth-grade daughter came home from school with bruises in the shape of fingerprints. School staff had locked the girl in a room while trying to restrain her in November 2024, said Cupp, a social worker in rural Indiana. Her...
The Texas Tribune President Donald Trump's order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education last month came with promises that federal dollars for special education will stay intact. In CNN’s State of the Union, U.S. Education Secretary Linda...
When Congress returns next week, the House and Senate will dive headlong into negotiations to develop the budget reconciliation package intended to support corporate tax cuts. To pay for the tax extensions, some Congressional Republicans have targeted Medicaid for...
Truthout A letter to Congress, signed by 15 disability rights groups, made clear that removing federal oversight of critical civil rights laws like IDEA “leaves students vulnerable to the variation in state implementation and threatens to bring us back to a...
NPR Amy Cupp says that after weeks of trying to get G's school to change the way it handled her daughter's behavior, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, which investigates discrimination in schools. That office...
Mother Jones On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for...
K-12 Dive Several Republican-led bills introduced in Congress this year propose how to divide up the U.S. Department of Education’s responsibilities among other federal agencies — and thereby carry out President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the 45-year-old agency....
Stars and Stripes Some special needs students attending Defense Department schools are being underserved due to staffing shortages and high turnover among special education personnel, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday. The...
NBC Connecticut Democrats on a new Select Committee on Special Education unveiled a plan Monday meant to help local school districts keep costs down. The identical proposals come as municipalities say special education costs are driving up budgets. “We are at a crisis...