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GA: GA school districts spend hundreds of thousands fighting special education parents in court
WRDR Georgia school districts are spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on legal battles to fight parents of disabled children over special education evaluations. District records, uncovered by Atlanta News First Investigates, reveal proceedings have more...
NY: Thousands of NYC students with disabilities may not have school buses at beginning of year, nonprofit says
CBS New York New York City public schools will open their doors to students Thursday to begin a new academic year, but thousands of students with special needs and their families are questioning how they're going to get there. According to the organization Advocates...
TX: Texas has a new plan to better include young children with disabilities in classrooms
KERA News Texas is trying to do a better job of including young children with disabilities in classrooms alongside their peers. Federal law already requires schools to educate children with disabilities alongside children without disabilities whenever appropriate. But...
National Coalition Condemns Education Department Guidance on Student Discipline in K-12 Schools, Issues Brief to Help Schools Use Evidence-Based Practices
The Federal School Discipline and Climate Coalition (FedSDC) issued a press advisory condemning the Department of Education’s August 18 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that encourages States and school districts to replace proven effective practices with those that...
Head of special education at U.S. Education Dept. quits
NPR Kelly Rogers told employees Wednesday that she is resigning from her post overseeing special education at the U.S. Education Department as the agency is in the midst of upheaval and downsizing. Rogers, who has been overseeing the Office of Special Education and...
School Voucher Programs Don’t Offer Much Choice to Kids with Disabilities
ProPublica For all of Amelia’s life, Johnson has had to fight for the education and the school resources her daughter is entitled to receive under federal law. It has exhausted her. Two years ago, she thought she’d found a better option for Amelia when she learned...
CA: Their children couldn’t tell them what happened. Now some California parents want cameras in classrooms
EdSource Brittney Camacho was in disbelief after she received the call from the Visalia Police Department in Tulare County in September 2025. An officer told her something that her children could not — that they may have been the victim of physical abuse. The alleged...
CT: State working to fix Connecticut’s ‘broken’ special education funding system
News 8 Comptroller Sean Scanlon said Connecticut’s underlying system for special education is “truly broken” in a budget surplus update Tuesday, highlighting staffing shortages, rising rates of out-of-district and out-of-state placements, and strains on district...
House Bill Intends to Stop the Transfer of Four ED Offices
Representatives John Mannion (D-NY), Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have introduced HR 10232, a bipartisan bill to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from transferring four programs to other federal agencies through interagency agreements....
ED Releases Guidance on Tech in Classrooms
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently released guidance on the responsible use oftechnology in classrooms. In a Dear Colleague letter on Tech in Classrooms, Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretaryfor the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), urges...
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