EdSource Brittney Camacho was in disbelief after she received the call from the Visalia Police Department in Tulare County in September 2025. An officer told her something that her children could not — that they may have been the victim of physical abuse. The alleged...
News 8 Comptroller Sean Scanlon said Connecticut’s underlying system for special education is “truly broken” in a budget surplus update Tuesday, highlighting staffing shortages, rising rates of out-of-district and out-of-state placements, and strains on district...
Representatives John Mannion (D-NY), Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have introduced HR 10232, a bipartisan bill to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from transferring four programs to other federal agencies through interagency agreements....
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently released guidance on the responsible use oftechnology in classrooms. In a Dear Colleague letter on Tech in Classrooms, Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretaryfor the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), urges...
U.S. News More than 8 million American children with disabilities are starting the new school year with guarantees of a decent public education at their local schools and federal funding that helps pay for it. But parents and advocates are split on whether a Trump...
Education Week New federal guidance threatens to upend decades of progress in high school transition planning, which helps students with disabilities prepare for college, the workforce, and living independently, advocates and researchers say. In 1999, the U.S. Supreme...
NPR A massive trove of data about the civil rights of American students was quietly published on the U.S. Department of Education's website this week. The Civil Rights Data Collection includes information about which groups of students are being bullied, which...
USA Today Parents of children with disabilities often find themselves advocating to get their kids the support they need to thrive. While the vast majority of the 7.5 million special education students in the United States stay enrolled in regular schools, according...
Houston Chronicle Marissa Gonzalez was one of the first parents in Texas to receive funding from the state’s $1 billion private school voucher program. Her two children have dyslexia, and their family income is below 500% of the poverty level, putting them in the...