MSN A public school district in northern New York broke state education regulations at least six times when it chose to confine students with disabilities in padded, wooden boxes in the classroom, an investigation by the New York State Education Department found. The...
NPR Rumors spread on social media over the winter: School kids with disabilities in the Salmon River Central School District, including Akwesasne Mohawk children, were being confined by special education teachers in wooden boxes. Sarah Konwahahawi Herne was...
Houston Public Media Dozens of parents, teachers, and students spoke out against Houston ISD's move to centralize special education services at the district's school board meeting Thursday night. The plan, announced last week after several news outlets,...
WPR Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says school leaders are “beside themselves” after the Legislature rejected a deal he negotiated that would have boosted education funding in exchange for tax cuts. In an interview with WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Evers blamed the impasse on...
EdSource When Tania Rivera’s son with autism ran out of school and into the street, no one noticed he was gone. Not the teacher or any school official. Rivera said she found out from another parent who saw him. “It wasn’t safe for him, and I was in shock. Believe me,...
kvue.com A woman in Georgia is questioning her son’s three-day suspension after school officials said the 8-year-old brought a small LEGO creation resembling a gun to class, sparking debate over zero-tolerance discipline policies for young students. “This is...
The Banner Kristi Maeng felt crushed when Montgomery County Public Schools staff said they wanted to put her son JoJo on an academic trajectory that rarely leads to a diploma — especially because he was just starting elementary school. JoJo, who has Down syndrome,...
The Belmont Voice When her daughter Ruby started school, Andrea Campbell saw right away that Ruby struggled to keep pace with her classmates in reading, spelling, and math. “Even in preschool, it was very clear to me that she was going to have a learning disability,”...
Chalkbeat As Mayor Zohran Mamdani scrambles to plug a multi-billion-dollar budget gap, his administration is looking more closely at the money New York City spends on private school tuition for students with disabilities. The payments — which topped $723 million last...