by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal Archive
After an agonizing week in Congress, on Friday, President Trump signed a Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025) continuing resolution (CR) into law that funds the government at essentially FY 2024 levels through September 30, 2025. Missing from the CR –and what kept most House...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal Archive
Education Week Parents whose discrimination complaints have gone unresolved and have been further delayed are suing the U.S. Department of Education over its mass layoffs, which cut deeply into the agency’s civil rights investigation arm. The lawsuit—filed in federal...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal Archive
The Dallas Morning News For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive. Changes at the U.S. Education Department are likely to make the process even more difficult, advocates for kids with...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal Archive
KNEB-AM 960 AM Following the Department of Education’s gutting of nearly 50% of its workforce Tuesday evening, educators have expressed deep concern — not only for students’ futures but for their own as well. Tara Kini, chief of policy and programs at the Learning...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | State Archive
ABC7 NEWS Anacostia mother Andrea Jones said she had to fight D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) to get help for her son, who has autism spectrum disorder. “It was a lot of him just not being able to obtain the academics that he was entitled to,” she told 7News. Jones said...
