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Comment by Oct. 6: Tell HHS to Withdraw Head Start Changes that Harm Access to Preschool for Children with Disabilities
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed significant changes to the Head Start Performance Standards (Head Start) that COPAA opposes. If HHS proceeds as planned, the new regulations will completely eliminate current Head Start Performance...
What civil rights enforcement cuts mean for students with disabilities – fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits
The Conversation Felicita Piñón weighed just 1 pound at birth. She was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy that requires her to use a power wheelchair, and she also has learning and emotional challenges. Yet despite these obstacles, Felicita, now an eighth-grade...
Deadline Nears for Education Department to Spend Special Ed Research Funds
Disability Scoop For months, there have been concerns that the U.S. Department of Education could allow millions in special education research dollars to lapse. Now, a federal judge is stepping in. U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs is ordering the Education...
GA: Federal staffing cuts leave hundreds of Georgia special education cases stalled (VIDEO)
Atlanta News First Hundreds of Georgia students with disabilities are waiting for help from a federal agency facing an exploding backlog of civil rights complaints and fewer staff to handle them. One of those students is 8-year-old Theo Hutchings, who has Down...
NY: Parents, lawmakers push to overhaul school bus system
Spectrum News NY1 New York City parents and lawmakers are calling on the state to pass legislation that would allow the city to overhaul its school bus system and provide better service for students with disabilities. Each September, parents say they face many of the...
TX: HISD says its controversial special education overhaul is showing results after just 5 weeks
Yahoo News Five weeks into HISD's special education overhaul, district leaders and some parents say the reforms have helped students. Others remain unconvinced. The district's new Special Education Success Program, which sent thousands of students to new campuses this...
TX: Texas school choice boom leaves many public school kids behind
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth The Catholic school tour ended, and Maria Contreras felt an overwhelming desire to enroll her 7-year-old. But first, a difficult question for the principal. The second grader has trouble focusing. He doesn’t listen to teachers and runs around...
CO: How Parents in Boulder, Colorado, Rewrote the Rules on Autism Therapy in School
The 74 Jenny Thamer had low hopes for the meeting called by the superintendent of the Boulder Valley School District to hear from families of autistic students. From her experience, such so-called listening sessions are often pro forma events, staged more to assuage...
COPAA urges the D.C. Circuit to affirm the decision of the federal court in the class action lawsuit in D.C.
COPAA filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit in In Re: District of Columbia. The brief urges the court to affirm the decision of the United States District Court. The amicus brief is here. COPAA Amicus Committee Co-chairs Ellen M. Saideman and COPAA Legal Director...
COPAA urges the Ninth Circuit to Reverse the decision of the federal courtand affirm students are entitled to an IEP
COPAA filed an amicus brief in the 9 th Circuit in E.T. v. San Diego Unified School Dist. The brief urges the court to reverse the decision of the United States District Court in a case involving the issue of a Settlement Agreement and whether parents have a right to...
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