Maine Morning Star Timothy Tweedie, superintendent and principal of the Veazie Community School, said he’d seen an uptick in students entering kindergarten with unmet special education needs in recent years and wanted to get a jump on addressing that. So last year,...
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MI: Hundreds of Michigan families’ civil rights cases impacted by federal cuts
Chalkbeat There was a time George Finley Jr. was on the honor roll. After the seventh grader started having epileptic seizures a couple of years ago, he experienced memory loss. Now, he’s far behind where he should be academically. The Detroit Public Schools Community...
OH: Ohio voucher cost increases as lawmakers debate public school funding
The Columbus Dispatch Two years ago, Ohio did what few other states had done before it: it allowed every family to receive a voucher to pay for private school. The move was praised by school choice advocates, who said it would give opportunities to children who would...
OK: Special education teachers offered $20,000 bonuses to move to Oklahoma
Oklahoma Voice Oklahoma is offering bonuses up to $20,000 and thousands more in retention incentives to attract special education teachers to the state. The Oklahoma State Department of Education budgeted $1.875 million for the initiative with the goal of attracting...
WI: Dept. of Public Instruction: State superintendent calls for special education reimbursement increase, expanded mental health training amid rising incidents of seclusion and restraint
WisPolitics State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly today called for increasing the special education rate and expanding mental health training programs available to Wisconsin schools as part of the 2025-27 biennial budget. The message comes as the Wisconsin Department...
LA: State, school district ask judge to end federal scrutiny of New Orleans special education
The Lens The Louisiana Department of Education and Orleans Parish School Board have asked a federal judge to release them from a decade-old judgment, instituted on behalf of special-education students who weren’t receiving services from charter schools in the early...
TX: How Education Department’s end could hurt Texas special ed
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 would stay intact. In CNN’s State of the Union, U.S. Education Secretary Linda...
MA: State education board addresses timeouts, seclusion in schools
WBUR News The state education board advanced regulations Tuesday to further restrict controversial "timeout" and seclusion policies in schools, the next step in a years-long effort to reduce the use of the practices. There's been growing national attention on...
MN: Minnesota Bills Would Roll Back Bans on Seclusion and Expulsion for K-3 Students
The 74 Two years ago, Minnesota outlawed most suspensions and all disciplinary seclusion of very young pupils in schools. An outgrowth of an effort to curb police abuses in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, it was a change that advocates for children with...