Arkansas Advocate The LEARNS Act is a 2023 law that made sweeping changes to Arkansas’s K-12 education system. Among other things, the law raised the state’s minimum teacher salary to $50,000 and created a school voucher program called the Educational Freedom Account...
Portland Press Herald As more districts prepare to take over services for 3- to 5-year-olds with disabilities, a pilot program shows positive results and steep challenges ahead. Under federal law, states are required to ensure all children can successfully participate...
Tennessee schools can now more quickly remove some students with disabilities from their classrooms. The state Board of Education on Aug. 15 approved an amended state rule allowing schools to temporarily remove students to an environment such as a special education...
K-12 Dive Five large school districts in Northern Virginia were put on high-risk status and told their federal funding would only be distributed by reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday. The announcement comes after the Education Department...
Arizona Capitol Times With empty desks and a heavy caseload at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, advocates for families with disabilities anticipate a pivot away from the federal route for discrimination complaint resolution. Instead,...
Minnesota Reformer The Minnesota Department of Education notified Minneapolis Public Schools that it’s in violation of state and federal law for overidentifying Black students in the category of “developmental cognitive disability” for the past three years. The...
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR Missouri is the only state that still operates separate day schools for special education. But the Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled are struggling with declining enrollment, with 36% fewer students over the past 16 years....
Admitting Montana is out of step with other states and facing the threat of a class-action lawsuit, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Susie Hedalen and the State of Montana have come to an agreement in federal court to allow those with disabilities to stay...
New Hampshire Public Radio New Hampshire is spending too little on special education, a judge ruled Monday. But Superior Court Judge David Ruoff stopped short of ordering the Legislature to spend more. This is the second court in six weeks to conclude the state is...