by kids1stadvocac | Aug 11, 2026 | State
Yahoo! News Three days before Houston ISD’s new school year begins, some families say they’re still confused about which school their child will attend after the district’s special education overhaul. In July, the Texas Education Agency ordered HISD...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 24, 2026 | State
Durham Herald Sun Wake County school board chair Tyler Swanson has scheduled a special board meeting on Tuesday to discuss a controversial proposed $18 million cut to the special education budget. This week, school administrators announced the cut, which will result...
by kids1stadvocac | Jan 20, 2026 | Federal
The 74 Before she became education secretary, Linda McMahon spent four years strategizing President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. His election was a triumph for conservatives and a chance to unwind decades of what they consider intrusions into state and...
by kids1stadvocac | Jan 20, 2026 | Federal
Chalkbeat The future of special education remains up in the air, but the Trump administration is feeling pressure to assuage the concerns of parents of students with disabilities that efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education could put their children at...
by kids1stadvocac | Jan 20, 2026 | Federal
Education Week The constitutional principle known as “the power of the purse” has been a fixture of American history classrooms for generations. Federal law explicitly prohibits the executive branch from overriding Congress’s spending decisions. But with a cascade of...
