Atlanta News First Hundreds of Georgia students with disabilities are waiting for help from a federal agency facing an exploding backlog of civil rights complaints and fewer staff to handle them. One of those students is 8-year-old Theo Hutchings, who has Down...
Spectrum News NY1 New York City parents and lawmakers are calling on the state to pass legislation that would allow the city to overhaul its school bus system and provide better service for students with disabilities. Each September, parents say they face many of the...
Yahoo News Five weeks into HISD's special education overhaul, district leaders and some parents say the reforms have helped students. Others remain unconvinced. The district's new Special Education Success Program, which sent thousands of students to new campuses this...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth The Catholic school tour ended, and Maria Contreras felt an overwhelming desire to enroll her 7-year-old. But first, a difficult question for the principal. The second grader has trouble focusing. He doesn’t listen to teachers and runs around...
The 74 Jenny Thamer had low hopes for the meeting called by the superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District to hear from families of autistic students. From her experience, such so-called listening sessions are often pro forma events, staged more to assuage...
WRDR Georgia school districts are spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal battles to fight parents of disabled children over special education evaluations. District records, uncovered by Atlanta News First Investigates, reveal proceedings have more...
CBS New York New York City public schools will open their doors to students Thursday to begin a new academic year, but thousands of students with special needs and their families are questioning how they're going to get there. According to the organization Advocates...
KERA News Texas is trying to do a better job of including young children with disabilities in classrooms alongside their peers. Federal law already requires schools to educate children with disabilities alongside children without disabilities whenever appropriate. But...
EdSource Brittney Camacho was in disbelief after she received the call from the Visalia Police Department in Tulare County in September 2025. An officer told her something that her children could not — that they may have been the victim of physical abuse. The alleged...