The U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) administers the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), which is a mandatory survey of all public school districts and schools in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico....
K-12 Dive What should states prioritize when designing special education funding systems? One special education expert says building systems that provide school districts with the resources for high-quality, evidence-based services that respond to students’ individual...
Navy Times For military families, a permanent change of station can mean more than adjusting to a new school. Government Accountability Office officials told Military Times that parents have repeatedly reported problems transferring educational records and...
On Thursday, August 20, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) hosted a roundtable in Newport News, Virginia. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) was also in attendance, as were parents, advocates, school administrators, and teachers. COPAA CEO Denise Marshall and parent member...
Disability Scoop With major changes happening in Washington, families are increasingly turning to states to help resolve special education disputes. Data collected from 33 states shows that written complaints related to special education are up nearly 48%. The Council...
CBS News At Chain of Lakes Elementary School in Winter Haven, Florida, Josette Smith's 9-year-old son, Ethan, gets to do what he loves most: crafts, math, and science. That is, when he isn't being pulled out of class. Ethan has autism and...
Today, in new guidance issued to educational institutions via a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), Kim Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, told schools that discipline policies must “treat students even-handedly and must neither favor nor disfavor any student...
K-12 Dive State education agencies saw a 46% jump in the number of written state complaints in special education during the 2025-26 school year compared to the year before, according to new survey responses from 31 states. The self-reported survey data, collected by...
The Nation In March 2020, Courtney and Spencer Morey moved to Aledo, Texas, a rapidly expanding suburb of Fort Worth, because of the stellar reputation of its schools. But about three years later, when their daughter Annie, who has Down syndrome, was supposed to start...