The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education has released A First Look: The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for 2023-2024. In its first summary analysis of the most recent CRDC, OCR reports that for the 2023-2024 school year, 49.7 million...
NPR Every couple of years, we learn about how students are being treated across every public school in the country. Now, it comes from a U.S. Department of Education survey called the Civil Rights Data Collection. NPR's Jonaki Mehta has been in touch with experts who...
Education Week Advocates say the proposed changes to Head Start regulations could result in negative consequences for children with disabilities—both diagnosed and undiagnosed. Currently, Head Start must administer developmental screenings within 45 days of a child...
Last Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) issued proposed regulations for the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit that was placed into federal law through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (HR 1) in 2025 and is schedule to take effect in 2027. Since the law’s...
On September 30, U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced a bipartisan resolution (HR 1586) marking the 27th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. L.C., which recognized the unjustified institutional...
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and other unions have reached a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the Administration’s mass firing of federal...
The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Education (CADRE) has released its annual National DR Data Dashboard, which provides users the ability to access and compare national and state DR data from 2004 to the present. This latest update is based on data...
Following its recent release of the 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) raw data, the U.S. Department of Education has released its "First Look" analysis, which provides a high-level overview of key findings from the CRDC data.
ABC News It was sometime around Xavier Rogers' second birthday that his mom and Early Head Start teachers noticed a shift in his demeanor. Xavier, usually a happy baby, now mostly wanted to play alone and would sometimes bite and hit other kids in his class. Instead...