First Alert 4 The Special School District of St. Louis County is implementing new policies ahead of the upcoming school year to improve student safety and ensure that students with disabilities are treated with greater dignity in the classroom. The changes follow a...
NY Post Big Apple public schools lost out on a staggering $431.6 million in Medicaid cash, failing to collect federal reimbursements on services for students with disabilities, according to a new audit by the city comptroller’s office. The report spanning fiscal years...
Wate News 9,000 children in Knox County public schools receive special education services, but some parents say the system is broken. One of those parents is a familiar face—one of WATE’s contributors on our Sunday political talk show “Tennessee This Week.” Cortney...
Houston Press In a scramble to prepare for the upcoming school year, Houston ISD representatives from various campuses have been calling parents of special education students in recent days, asking whether their child’s Individualized Education Program can be...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has scheduled a markup for Thursday, July 30 to vote on an unprecedented bipartisan agreement that prohibits the transfer of certain offices and functions of the Department of Education (ED) to other...
Last week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) led the House through two votes that tee up federal funding discussions after the August recess. The first is passage of a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that will extend federal appropriations funding -for...
Eighty-six House Democrats sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) urging a halt to its planned transfer of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office for Civil...
The Children’s Equity Project (CEP) has published The Data and Policy Landscapes of Education Vouchers: Inequitable Opportunity and the Unprecedented Shift in Public Education Dollars. The report examines the evolution and current state of education voucher programs,...
ProPublica Delta Institute joined a surge of new private schools in Arkansas, mirroring a national proliferation. New schools are opening at a fast clip as state legislatures set aside more public money for parents to spend at private schools, without meaningful...