by kids1stadvocac | Dec 16, 2025 | Federal
Led by Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT), all Senate Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee submitted a letter to Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Thursday calling for an immediate oversight hearing with Education Secretary Linda...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 16, 2025 | Federal
Disability Scoop The U.S. Department of Education is bringing back hundreds of staffers to tackle a backlog of civil rights cases — including complaints of disability discrimination in schools — after keeping them on administrative leave for most of the year. More...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 16, 2025 | Federal
Hechinger Report Within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is a small office devoted to educational issues, including seclusion, as well as desegregation and racial harassment. The division intentionally chooses cases with potential for high impact and...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | State
KOLD.COM “It’s really important that some outside agency like OCR comes in — someone outside the school district can come in and see what’s going on,” said Dr. Diana Newmark, University of Arizona Education Advocacy Clinic Director. Then the Trump Administration...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | Federal
NPR Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and guaranteed all children with disabilities the right to a...
