by kids1stadvocac | Mar 4, 2025 | State
Texas Standard For years, parents and education advocates have complained about a lack of proper resources in Texas schools for students with dyslexia. But under a bill passed in 2023, that’s about to change. School districts have until this summer to move students...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 25, 2025 | Restraint & Seclusion, State
FOX news 13 When Stephanie Merrill read the first substitute of a bill that would ban seclusion in Utah schools, she was “completely overjoyed.” “It took me totally by surprise,” added her husband, Craig Merrill, in a recent interview with FOX 13 News. “I thought,...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 18, 2025 | State
TCU 360 Texas lawmakers are pushing to bring special education discussions into the public arena with proposed changes to service requirements. Senate Bill 568, currently under committee review, aims to reshape how school districts and open-enrollment charter schools...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 11, 2025 | State
News 9 If it passed, SB1017 would have impacted medical care for students with special needs to include only “educationally necessary services” in schools. That means Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs — which provide specialized instruction and support services...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 4, 2025 | State
Virginia Mercury When Toby and Lindsay Latham sent their son Calvin to school in Fairfax County, they hoped it would be a place where he could grow and thrive. Instead, they discovered he wasn’t learning at all. “It was terrible,” Toby Latham said. Calvin, who uses an...
