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CA: LAUSD students to return to classes Wednesday under new screen-time rules
NBC Los Angeles Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will return to classrooms tomorrow for the start of the school year, with the district implementing restrictions on the use of digital devices during the school day. Under a policy...
CT: $10.6 million in state grants announced for Connecticut special education programs
fox61.com Connecticut is awarding $10.6 million in state grants to dozens of in-district special education programs, according to Gov. Ned Lamont's office on Monday. Under the first round of a new incentive grant program, administered by the state Department of...
MI: A renewed push to ban seclusion, reduce restraint in Michigan schools
Newsday Thousands of times a year in Michigan schools, students who are considered a potential danger to themselves and others — many of them children with disabilities — are physically restrained or put in seclusion. That’s despite an almost 10-year-old law aimed at...
PA: Philly parents push Council to ban preschool suspensions citywide
Northeast Times Several Philadelphia parents told City Council this month that their young children with disabilities were pushed out of preschool programs, sometimes on the first day. They urged lawmakers to ban the practice across all early childhood settings in the...
TX: Texas has started handing out school voucher funding. Over 20,000 students have returned the money.
Texas Standard The passage of Senate Bill 2 last year was a victory for Gov. Greg Abbott, who pushed hard for the program in 2023 but could not get it across the finish line. The money for these education savings accounts was made available to families starting this...
Department of Education Requires Schools to Eliminate Race Consideration in Student Discipline
Today, in new guidance issued to educational institutions via a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), Kim Richey, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, told schools that discipline policies must “treat students even-handedly and must neither favor nor disfavor any student...
Special education state complaints jump nearly 50%
K-12 Dive State education agencies saw a 46% jump in the number of written state complaints in special education during the 2025-26 school year compared to the year before, according to new survey responses from 31 states. The self-reported survey data, collected by...
Shut out of special education, this Texas family is fighting back
The Nation In March 2020, Courtney and Spencer Morey moved to Aledo, Texas, a rapidly expanding suburb of Fort Worth, because of the stellar reputation of its schools. But about three years later, when their daughter Annie, who has Down syndrome, was supposed to start...
Meet the Catholic schools serving students with special needs
America Magazine In 2014, 3.5 percent of students in N.C.E.A. schools were reported as having been diagnosed with a disability. Today that figure is 9.8 percent. Ms. MacDonald said N.C.E.A. has established a task force that is developing a directory of schools with...
Dyscalculia affects almost as many students as dyslexia. What can districts do?
K-12 Dive Between 3% to 7% of all children, adolescents and adults have dyscalculia, according to an estimate published in 2019 by the National Institutes of Health. The CRPE brief describes dyscalculia as “one of the most common learning disabilities.” Up...
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