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Senate Democrats Reject Interagency Agreements to Move IDEA and Civil Rights Functions to Other Agencies
Last week, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations; and Bernie Sanders, Ranking...
GAO Report Highlights Wide Variability in Student Access to General Education
In a new report titled More Students with Disabilities Were Educated in General Education Settings, but State Trends Varied Widely, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the number of students with disabilities placed in general education classrooms...
Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn
PBS News For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Last month, the Department of Education announced it would...
This federal data helps shape policy. It’s 6 months late
NPR For more than 50 years, the Education Department has revealed a host of realities about how students are being treated in every public school across America: which kids are being bullied, which ones are being harassed and which students can access the internet,...
Colleges serving more Autistic students than they realize
Inside Higher Ed As colleges work to improve student success, new research suggests they may be underestimating the size of a much larger student population than previously understood: autistic students. A new study from Michigan State University examined 731...
CA: Bakersfield mothers continue their fight for cameras to be installed in special education classrooms
KERO Mothers with special needs children part of the Bakersfield City School District took to a recent board meeting to present 5,000 signatures asking for cameras to be placed in special ed classrooms.
CT: Special education complaints increasing in CT. ‘Things are tough’
Hartford Courant After a special education student in Seymour Public Schools was restrained and secluded 53 times in seven months, the child’s parents filed an official state complaint. The state determined that in two of the 53 occasions, it was “unclear” if physical...
ID: Special ed faces two changes, but the budget crunch isn’t going anywhere
Moscow-Pullman Daily News Debbie Critchfield is starting a new state special education program — while watching an overhaul at the federal level. They are two big changes — two important transitions — affecting special education services for roughly 41,200 Idaho...
NJ: Jersey City BOE special ed audit report referred to authorities; criminal probe underway
Hudson County View At Thursday’s over seven-hour meeting, the third-party firm that conducted the audit, Lerch, Vinci, and Bliss LLP, released a 3-page summary of their findings. While the full 80-page audit report was referred to law enforcement, authorities directed...
TX: Special education parents in Houston ISD searching for answers ahead of changes in services
Houston Public Media A small group of parents gathered Wednesday night looking for advice on how to combat the controversial changes to special education Houston ISD is implementing for the upcoming school year. Texas' largest school district is consolidating special...
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