Houston Public Media The influx of nearly $8.5 billion to Texas schools last year did not stop many from cutting programs, eliminating staffing and closing campuses. On Monday, school leaders from across the state will detail the financial challenges still...
One Monday afternoon in October 2023, a Cy-Fair ISD police officer tracked down a fifth-grader who had run away from his school for students with behavioral challenges. The boy had left campus before. But this time when he wouldn’t get in the police car, the officer...
Chalkbeat The Philadelphia school district plans to wind down a special education program that separates some students with additional learning needs into their own classrooms. The program, called Intensive Learning Support (ILS), is meant to help students who are...
pennlive.com The Pennsylvania Department of Education will award grants to 26 schools to encourage students interested in careers in special education. Education Secretary Carrie Rowe announced the awards as part of the Developing Future Special Educators program. The...
Los Angeles Times Public school districts were winners in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposal for next year, with boosted funding that includes $2.4 billion in ongoing increases for services to students with disabilities, money that education officials have...
Florida Phoenix Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins unveiled his education agenda on Monday, which includes a rebuke of a proposal by one of his opponents in the Republican race for governor — U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds. In April, Donalds said in a speech in Miami that he wants...
WHSV A growing number of Georgia parents allege their school districts are violating the law by failing to provide required special education services, according to an Atlanta News First investigation. Georgia Department of Education records show formal complaints...
Nashua Ink Link We know what happens when the mentality of a society is that people who talk different, or walk different, or process different, get sent to a different place or treated differently,” said Amy Wheeler Teas, a parent of three, two of which are intensive...
Gothamist As he tries to solve New York City’s budget crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is following in his predecessors' footsteps by vowing to rein in the practice of taxpayers covering the cost of private tuition for students with disabilities. Under federal law,...