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Ed Department Pushing Ahead With Plan to Offload Special Education
Disability Scoop With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the groundwork to transfer special education out of the U.S. Department of Education. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told a group...
From Head Start to Civil Rights, 8 Ways Trump Reshaped Education in Just 1 Year
The 74 Before she became education secretary, Linda McMahon spent four years strategizing President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. His election was a triumph for conservatives and a chance to unwind decades of what they consider intrusions into state and...
Trump official, Project 2025 author: No cuts to special education
Chalkbeat The future of special education remains up in the air, but the Trump administration is feeling pressure to assuage the concerns of parents of students with disabilities that efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education could put their children at...
In Trump’s First Year, at Least $12 Billion in School Funding Disruptions
Education Week The constitutional principle known as “the power of the purse” has been a fixture of American history classrooms for generations. Federal law explicitly prohibits the executive branch from overriding Congress’s spending decisions. But with a cascade of...
An Analysis of the Impact of Endrew F. in the Courts
Perry A. Zirkel, University Professor Emeritus of Education & Law at Lehigh University, has just released his latest law review article, You can read “The Impact of Endrew F. : An Updated Analysis of Resulting Judicial Rulings,” here, published in the January 15,...
Advocates Tell Congress to Protect All Ed Programs In Pending Appropriations Bill
COPAA joined hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals to urge Congress to protect all education programs from being transferred to other federal agencies by expanding language included in the pending Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and...
CA: California K-12 schools brace for another year of uncertainty: 2025 in review
Local News Matters Last year was tumultuous for California K-12 schools and their 5.8 million students — at least at the federal level. President Donald Trump slashed funding to schools, set about dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, and launched an...
ID: UPDATED: Critchfield pulls plug on $50 million special education plan
ID ED News State superintendent Debbie Critchfield is walking back her top legislative priority for 2026: a $50 million special education grant proposal. The money simply won’t be available in a cash-strapped 2026-27 budget year, Critchfield told fellow State Board...
NY: NY bills demand data on lengthy suspensions of students with disabilities
Chalkbeat New York City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would force the Education Department to disclose detailed statistics about long-term suspensions of students with disabilities. A similar bill was recently introduced in the state...
TN: Tennessee Disability Coalition says state earned ‘incomplete’ for failing to address needs of people with disabilities
wbir.com The Tennessee Disability Coalition is made up of more than 40 groups working to promote equal participation of people with disabilities. For the past four years, the organization has released a scorecard grading the state on several aspects such as access to...