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Could artificial intelligence improve special education?
Consider This from NPR More and more students are qualifying for special education - more than 8 million students - but there aren't enough teachers serving them. Special education teachers have for years been in short supply all around the country, and they say one...
CA: What Newsom’s proposed budget means for education in California
Los Angeles Times Public school districts were winners in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposal for next year, with boosted funding that includes $2.4 billion in ongoing increases for services to students with disabilities, money that education officials have...
FL: Jay Collins bashes Byron Donalds on individual learning plans for everyone
Florida Phoenix Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins unveiled his education agenda on Monday, which includes a rebuke of a proposal by one of his opponents in the Republican race for governor — U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds. In April, Donalds said in a speech in Miami that he wants...
GA: Complaints grow over special education services in Georgia schools
WHSV A growing number of Georgia parents allege their school districts are violating the law by failing to provide required special education services, according to an Atlanta News First investigation. Georgia Department of Education records show formal complaints...
NH: School Board revises special education reconfiguration after community pushback
Nashua Ink Link We know what happens when the mentality of a society is that people who talk different, or walk different, or process different, get sent to a different place or treated differently,” said Amy Wheeler Teas, a parent of three, two of which are intensive...
NY: Mamdani becomes latest mayor hoping to fix NYC’s special education system
Gothamist As he tries to solve New York City’s budget crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is following in his predecessors' footsteps by vowing to rein in the practice of taxpayers covering the cost of private tuition for students with disabilities. Under federal law,...
NY: State finds school district held 5 students in wooden boxes
MSN A public school district in northern New York broke state education regulations at least six times when it chose to confine students with disabilities in padded, wooden boxes in the classroom, an investigation by the New York State Education Department found. The...
NY orders broad reform of public school that held Native children with disabilities in wooden boxes
NPR Rumors spread on social media over the winter: School kids with disabilities in the Salmon River Central School District, including Akwesasne Mohawk children, were being confined by special education teachers in wooden boxes. Sarah Konwahahawi Herne was...
TX: Dozens of parents speak out against Houston ISD’s special education changes
Houston Public Media Dozens of parents, teachers, and students spoke out against Houston ISD's move to centralize special education services at the district's school board meeting Thursday night. The plan, announced last week after several news outlets,...
WI: Tony Evers says school leaders ‘beside themselves’ following failure of education and tax deal
WPR Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says school leaders are “beside themselves” after the Legislature rejected a deal he negotiated that would have boosted education funding in exchange for tax cuts. In an interview with WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Evers blamed the impasse on...