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TX: Disability watchdog sues Klein ISD, alleging district blocked special education classroom monitoring
FOX 26 Houston According to court filings in a pending federal lawsuit, an independent statewide advocacy organization alleges that Klein ISD has unlawfully blocked its advocates from inspecting special education classrooms for more than a year. The lawsuit was filed...
COPAA Attends Roundtable with Senator Kaine
On Thursday, August 20, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) hosted a roundtable in Newport News, Virginia. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) was also in attendance, as were parents, advocates, school administrators, and teachers. COPAA CEO Denise Marshall and parent member...
States see spike in special ed complaints
Disability Scoop With major changes happening in Washington, families are increasingly turning to states to help resolve special education disputes. Data collected from 33 states shows that written complaints related to special education are up nearly 48%. The Council...
Trump puts autistic kids in the spotlight and cuts agencies built to protect them
CBS News At Chain of Lakes Elementary School in Winter Haven, Florida, Josette Smith's 9-year-old son, Ethan, gets to do what he loves most: crafts, math, and science. That is, when he isn't being pulled out of class. Ethan has autism and...
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...
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