Last Thursday, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reintroduced the Pay Teachers Act, a bill that would set a minimum teacher salary of $60,000. At a press event, Sanders cited economic statistics that underscore the...
Chalkbeat The Trump administration will release billions in frozen education funds after widespread outcry, including from Republican members of Congress, about the devastating impacts. U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, announced Friday on the social...
Disability Scoop Fewer states are meeting their obligations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, federal officials say, with most deficient multiple years in a row. The U.S. Department of Education said that just 19 states qualify as “meets...
Disability Scoop More than three decades after the passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, advocates worry progress is slipping amid attacks on disability rights and uncertainty over the future of services and supports. Saturday will mark 35 years...
The 74 The pandemic gave America’s parents a taste of homeschooling, whether they wanted it or not. Many discovered their children were better suited for learning outside traditional schools and stuck with it. Others said schools were pushing “leftist...
COPAA, along with the California Association for Parent-Child Advocacy and Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in J.R. v. Ventura Unified School District. COPAA and its...
On Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released Education At Risk: Frontline Impacts of Trump’s War on Students, which included results from a COPAA survey detailing how the Administration’s actions that target the U.S. Department of Education (ED) harm access to...
In an ongoing campaign designed to compel Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to release nearly $7 billion in federal K-12 education funding to states and school districts, this week, COPAA joined with more than 600 nonpartisan local, state, and national...
Disability Scoop The Trump administration is moving forward with sweeping plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, a move advocates say will disproportionately affect students with disabilities. A Supreme Court order earlier this week cleared the way for...