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CT: CT Education Dept. hires special ed attorney to improve complaint process
Hartford Courant The Connecticut State Department of Education announced Wednesday it has hired Kathleen Reiser to fill a newly-created role of dedicated special education attorney. The department created the position to address longstanding dissatisfaction with the...
IL: Parents blast conditions students are being taught in at CPS schools
NBC Chicago Special education students at a Chicago school are being taught in offices, hallways, storage rooms, stairwells and in classrooms with asbestos, some parents say. The parents say students are facing the questionable conditions at Prescott Elementary...
NE: School resource officers in Omaha-area schools have used force on students dozens of times since ’21
Flatwater Free Press When Katy Eilers first learned officers at OPS carried the shock gloves, she called her son’s school, Millard North High, to ask if the officer there did, too. In a recorded conversation shared by Eilers, Rebecca Kleeman, spokeswoman for...
MN: School leaders push back on $250M in special education cuts
KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News Special education and school leaders say Minnesota shouldn’t cut $250 million in special education funding, a cut that’s scheduled to kick in automatically next year. If lawmakers won’t, or can’t, repeal the cut, a special Blue Ribbon Task...
NE: Special education, services for Nebraskans with disabilities targeted in hypothetical education department cuts
Nebraska Public Media Cuts to services for students and adults with disabilities — along with a large reduction in school aid funding — are among hypothetical proposed changes in the Nebraska Department of Education’s budget for the next two fiscal years. The...
NY: NYC’s costly special education system is imperiling Mamdani’s ambitious agenda
POLITICO New York City is spending more than $1 billion each year on private school tuition, related services and other costs for students with special education needs at a time when it faces chronic budget deficits that are imperiling Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ambitious...
TX: Thousands of kids are still getting paddled in Texas schools, data shows
KERA “He asked me to essentially bend over his desk, and he hit me three times,” Hooper told KERA News. “It was humiliating. It was so uncomfortable.” Now 31, Hooper is against corporal punishment – the practice of causing pain or discomfort to correct a behavior. And...
Thousands of Texas kids faced charges after more police placed in schools
The Texas Tribune Over the past decade, school districts across Texas have sought to make classrooms safer by swelling the number of police officers on campuses and taking a tougher stance on misbehavior. But the crackdown has had an unexpected consequence: sweeping...
Award-Winning Film Documents Resilience After Institutionalization and Harmful Use of Electric Shock Therapy
In early October, the renowned Heartland Film Festival awarded The Fish Don't Care When It Rains three major prizes including the Documentary Grand Prize, Documentary Audience Choice Award, and the Richard D. Propes Social Impact Documentary Award. Documenting the...
Nearly 1 In 5 Public School Students Have IEPs or 504 Plans
Disability Scoop A growing number of students in the nation’s schools have disabilities, new data shows, and they are more likely to experience restraint, seclusion and other discipline. Students with disabilities account for 19% of the nearly 50 million children in...
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