News From the States What if a plan to increase teacher pay and improve Arizona schools actually hurts our most vulnerable population — our students with special needs? I’m a mom to a child with Down syndrome. I am also an educator with nearly two decades of...
Hartford Courant The Connecticut State Department of Education announced Wednesday it has hired Kathleen Reiser to fill a newly-created role of dedicated special education attorney. The department created the position to address longstanding dissatisfaction with the...
NBC Chicago Special education students at a Chicago school are being taught in offices, hallways, storage rooms, stairwells and in classrooms with asbestos, some parents say. The parents say students are facing the questionable conditions at Prescott Elementary...
Flatwater Free Press When Katy Eilers first learned officers at OPS carried the shock gloves, she called her son’s school, Millard North High, to ask if the officer there did, too. In a recorded conversation shared by Eilers, Rebecca Kleeman, spokeswoman for...
KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News Special education and school leaders say Minnesota shouldn’t cut $250 million in special education funding, a cut that’s scheduled to kick in automatically next year. If lawmakers won’t, or can’t, repeal the cut, a special Blue Ribbon Task...
Nebraska Public Media Cuts to services for students and adults with disabilities — along with a large reduction in school aid funding — are among hypothetical proposed changes in the Nebraska Department of Education’s budget for the next two fiscal years. The...
POLITICO New York City is spending more than $1 billion each year on private school tuition, related services and other costs for students with special education needs at a time when it faces chronic budget deficits that are imperiling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ambitious...
KERA “He asked me to essentially bend over his desk, and he hit me three times,” Hooper told KERA News. “It was humiliating. It was so uncomfortable.” Now 31, Hooper is against corporal punishment – the practice of causing pain or discomfort to correct a behavior. And...
The Texas Tribune Over the past decade, school districts across Texas have sought to make classrooms safer by swelling the number of police officers on campuses and taking a tougher stance on misbehavior. But the crackdown has had an unexpected consequence: sweeping...