KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News Special education and school leaders say Minnesota shouldn’t cut $250 million in special education funding, a cut that’s scheduled to kick in automatically next year. If lawmakers won’t, or can’t, repeal the cut, a special Blue Ribbon Task...
Nebraska Public Media Cuts to services for students and adults with disabilities — along with a large reduction in school aid funding — are among hypothetical proposed changes in the Nebraska Department of Education’s budget for the next two fiscal years. The...
POLITICO New York City is spending more than $1 billion each year on private school tuition, related services and other costs for students with special education needs at a time when it faces chronic budget deficits that are imperiling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ambitious...
KERA “He asked me to essentially bend over his desk, and he hit me three times,” Hooper told KERA News. “It was humiliating. It was so uncomfortable.” Now 31, Hooper is against corporal punishment – the practice of causing pain or discomfort to correct a behavior. And...
The Texas Tribune Over the past decade, school districts across Texas have sought to make classrooms safer by swelling the number of police officers on campuses and taking a tougher stance on misbehavior. But the crackdown has had an unexpected consequence: sweeping...
WVTM 13 Hoover parents push for cameras in special education classrooms as district prioritizes staffing
Bridge Michigan The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) wants to eliminate a state rule designed to protect students while certain special education complaints are investigated. But a protection written into law matters only when the government is willing to...
FOX 26 Houston Disability Rights Texas (DRTx) says it plans to enter Klein ISD schools and speak with students and staff after a federal judge ruled the district violated federal law by restricting the organization’s monitoring access. The judgment, signed Sept. 28 by...
CBS Chicago Parents of special education students at a Lincoln Park Chicago Public School say there's a lack of equity in their children's classrooms. They say they've been asking for changes since last school year and nothing has been done. "It's a simple problem of...