The Daily Texan After he graduated from high school in Temple, Texas, Aidan Guerra, who has autism, said he had three options: get a job, go back to school, or move out. Guerra wanted to attend UT like his siblings did. He said his mother wanted to find a way for...
Public News Service Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction has revised its public school discipline policies, and advocates for children said the changes weaken student protections, and OSPI did not seek enough community feedback. One of the...
GovTech This fall a handful of New Orleans schools will have access to centralized special education services, the first step in an effort to help autonomous charter schools join forces to serve students with disabilities. The new program will provide participating...
NBC Montana A new law will bring funding to early special education in Montana for the first time in decades. The bipartisan effort got House Bill 168 onto Governor Greg Gianforte's desk, and now, it's law. According to federal law, all school districts in the nation...
Hechinger Report When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked up on what seemed like a long-standing pattern: Teachers mostly stayed in their lane, with general education teachers focusing on “their” students, and special education...
Wisconsin Examiner After many delays, the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee met Thursday evening to approve its plan for K-12 education spending that included a 5% increase to special education funding for schools and its $1.3 billion tax plan that targets retirees...
WHYY The Public Education Funding Commission recently voted on a set of recommendations to change Delaware’s school funding formula, but big questions loom over what a new funding formula will look like and how much additional money, if any, state lawmakers are...
Indiana Public Media Kristie Brown Loftland said the Autism Society of Indiana wants to make it easier on parents and families. “It's already confusing for a lot of parents when they first get the diagnosis of autism,” Brown Loftland, the ASI board president,...
Nebraska Public Media Angela Gleason knew something was wrong with her son’s education by the time he began first grade in Omaha Public Schools. The district moved Teddy, who has autism and is nonverbal, from a behavioral skills class to general education. His...