by kids1stadvocac | Aug 12, 2025 | State
MinnPost In 2014, Minneapolis Public Schools commissioned a review of its special education programs. The resulting 46-page report was packed with data pointing to an overarching, damning conclusion: The district had a systemwide literacy crisis. Until it was able to...
by kids1stadvocac | Aug 5, 2025 | State
ProPublica In Idaho, students with disabilities have performed worse in reading and math than many of their peers in other states, federal data shows. Idaho was among the states with the most founded complaints per capita in recent years, according to a national...
by kids1stadvocac | Jul 1, 2025 | Federal
The 74 In February, NCLD was alarmed to learn that the National Center for Education Statistics, the primary agency responsible for administering NAEP, had been reduced to a staff of three. Both administering the test and disaggregating and reporting the resulting...
by kids1stadvocac | Jun 24, 2025 | State
The Beacon There were 82,000 special education students in Kansas public schools in 2024-2025. That’s 12,000 more than a decade ago. The 12,000-student increase is not a massive share of the 500,000 students in Kansas public schools. But the steady increase in special...
by kids1stadvocac | Jun 24, 2025 | Federal
The U.S. Department of Education released its 2025 IDEA determinations for each state and territory. To read more, here is the announcement from ED with links to individual state determination letters: 2025 Determination Letters on State Implementation of IDEA –...
