by kids1stadvocac | Jan 20, 2026 | Federal
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...
by kids1stadvocac | Nov 4, 2025 | Federal
The Atlantic The Trump administration has taken the government shutdown as an opportunity to end federal oversight of the education services offered to more than 8 million children with disabilities in America. Last month, the Department of Education attempted to...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 21, 2025 | State
EdSource A program that trains teachers to support students with disabilities has been hit with the cancellation of $10.5 million in federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Education, the Press Democrat reported. The grant for Partnerships for Effective...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 14, 2025 | State
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Despite objections from Wisconsin’s K-12 education agency, the federal government upheld its decision to cut a state grant intended to support special education teachers. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction had appealed a...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 14, 2025 | Federal
Education Week April Wilson is responsible for teaching 36 students this school year—not squeezed into a single classroom, but spread among 19 school buildings in 12 districts across rural southern Illinois. For her job as one of only two itinerant teachers of the...
