WPR Earlier this year, school leaders across Wisconsin asked the Republican-controlled Legislature to boost funding for special education services in public schools. The biennial budget included a reimbursement rate from the long-standing 32 percent to 42 percent this...
Idaho Ed News State leaders are considering increasing the age limit for special education services, after court orders in neighboring states made students eligible for services up to age 22. Idaho funds special education students in public schools through the...
Wichita Eagle On Nov. 18, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon moved six key offices out of the U.S. Department of Education — a major step toward dismantling the agency entirely. As a mother of a child with autism and one with dyslexia, I am deeply opposed to these...
K-12 Dive Arizona’s ESA program launched in the 2011-12 school year with 144 students, and over the next few years, it served mostly targeted populations such as students with disabilities. In 2022-23, the program opened up to all students. ESAs provide K-12 families...
Cal Matters When my daughter’s development stalled and then regressed, her bright personality dimmed. Doctors said to wait. But as a clinician I suspected she needed urgent help — the kind that Early Start, California’s early intervention program, provides....
2020 was a significant year for millions of graduating high school seniors, as some schools right here in South Georgia hosted drive-thru, socially distanced, or virtual ceremonies, while others did not even have a ceremony. But one family remembers that time as a...
Louisiana Illuminator A decade of court oversight of special education services in New Orleans public schools, the result of a legal settlement, will most likely cease by the end of the year, the judge presiding over the legal settlement said Wednesday. The decision,...
Nashville Banner More than 170 of the 241 Tennessee private schools eligible to receive state-funded vouchers in the first year of the Education Freedom Scholarship program have a publicly listed admission inclusion policy. Many of the schools post a version of this...
CT Mirror English professor Brenda Brueggemann had driven by the memorial stone, the grassy grove, and the architectural shells of the shuttered institution every day for years on her way to teach at the University of Connecticut. The campus of the former Mansfield...