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CO: Colorado overhauls school oversight for students with disabilities

by kids1stadvocac | May 5, 2026 | State

FOX21 News Colorado

TX: Houston ISD plans to consolidate special education services, parent says after district meeting

by kids1stadvocac | May 5, 2026 | State

Houston Public Media Late last week, documents that leaked online and circulated on social media detailed proposed major changes to special education in Texas’s largest school district, which has been under state control since 2023. The documents appear to show...

FDA may finally make it illegal to shock Autistic kids as punishment

by kids1stadvocac | May 5, 2026 | Federal

Mother Jones In March 2024, the Food and Drug Administration under President Joe Biden introduced a new rule that would have banned, after decades, the use of electric shocks on disabled children as a form of punishment. A ban on forcibly shocking kids—which the...

NE: Nebraska passes special ed bill without proposed protections for students

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 28, 2026 | State

The 74 For Dave Murman, the issue was personal. The Republican state lawmaker knew Nebraska school districts were denying transfer requests at high rates to students with disabilities — kids who reminded Murman of his now-grown daughter. In 2025, he proposed a bill to...

NJ: Op-Ed: The special ed audit that’s outlasting childhoods.

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 21, 2026 | State

Jersey City Times At the March 2026 Jersey City Board of Education meeting, twenty parents and community members stood one by one at the podium and read, in turn, a single continuous speech. They came because students with disabilities in Jersey City Public Schools...
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