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WA: Bill to fully fund special ed progresses through WA legislature
Cascade PBS Washington lawmakers are on the cusp of eliminating a special education funding cap, which critics said was straining school finances, hurting students, and putting the state at risk of a major lawsuit. On a 97-0 vote, the House amended, then passed Senate...
WA: Lawsuit accuses special ed school districts of neglect and abuse
Seattle Times Two Tacoma-area families are suing the owner of a now-shuttered private special education school, alleging that school staff abused and neglected vulnerable students. The Northwest School of Innovative Learning was Washington’s largest publicly funded...
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...
CT: State leaders put focus on special education funding
NBC Connecticut State and local leaders visited New Britain High School on Monday morning to highlight the work of special education teachers and staff. It comes on the heels of celebrating National IEP (Individualized Education Programs) Writing Day, which is the...
IN: ‘Why am I so bad?’ Indiana schools suspend tens of thousands of students with disabilities
WBAA Bella’s school first suspended her in Kindergarten. Five-year-old Bella had hit a teacher's aide and run out of the classroom. A month later, the school suspended her after she tipped over a desk and fled the school. Eight days later, she was suspended again for...
ME: Districts share positive signs after special education for young children shifted to schools
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,...
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...