MN: Special ed faces cuts as Minneapolis schools struggle to close $75M budget gap

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 1, 2025 | State

MPR News Minneapolis school board members Tuesday night began detailing difficult cuts they expect to make to close a $75 million budget gap for next school year, including cutting more than 100 positions tied to special education. District leaders had previously...

Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 25, 2025 | Federal

Axios President Trump’s campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue. Why it matters: Funding for public schools primarily falls to local and state governments, but federal funds work to fill the...

AL: Alabama parents sue over cuts to education civil rights office: ‘Discriminatory and unsafe’

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | State

al.com Alabama parents are leading a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over recent cuts to the Office for Civil Rights, which investigates alleged abuses in local schools. The lawsuit, filed March 14, claims school civil rights investigations have been...

PA: With DOE’s Office of Civil Rights depleted, a lawsuit seeks to continue discrimination investigations in schools

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | State

The Philadelphia Inquirer With its workforce slashed and most of its regional offices — including one in Philadelphia — now shuttered, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has effectively halted investigating issues of sex-, race-, and...

NCYL and COPAA File Federal Lawsuit Against ED for Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit yesterday on behalf of students and families across the country that seeks to reverse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil...