On Thursday, at 10:15 a.m. ET, the Committee on Education and Workforce, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), has announced it will hold a hearing titled “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the Department of Education.” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is...
COPAA has released a new LRE Fact Sheet to protect and advance the civil rights of students with disabilities at a moment when those rights are increasingly under threat. The right to learn alongside nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate is a cornerstone...
Governors in several states have not yet decided whether to participate in the new Federal Tax Credit Voucher Program under HR1 — and your voice is urgently needed . This program will discriminate against students with disabilities, weaken civil rights...
Texas Standard The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Houston ISD to determine whether the district is violating the rights of students with disabilities after it unveiled plans to restructure the way special...
The 74 While intended as a universal benefit, educational support for disabled children is significantly segregated by class, according to a paper released in January. The decade-spanning analysis of state and federal data found that wealthy families were twice as...
Marking her first appearance before Congress since last June, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon presented the Administration’s priorities in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 education budget before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related...
Knowledge Alliance (KA) warns that an estimated $289 million (36%) of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funding for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is at risk of expiring by September 30, 2026. According to a KA memo analyzing federal education research spending,...
NPR The Trump administration's budget proposal includes $16 billion for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a federal law that guarantees students with disabilities a "free appropriate public education." That's one area where the department is...
Mother Jones Last Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) released a report showing just how intensely the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has failed students. The report found that there were zero resolution agreements in 2025 “involving sexual...