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President Trump Signs Federal Funding Bill, Details for IDEA Programs Left Blank

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

After an agonizing week in Congress, on Friday, President Trump signed a Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025) continuing resolution (CR) into law that funds the government at essentially FY 2024 levels through September 30, 2025. Missing from the CR –and what kept most House...

Parents sue Ed. Dept. over Civil Rights Office layoffs and delays

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

Education Week Parents whose discrimination complaints have gone unresolved and have been further delayed are suing the U.S. Department of Education over its mass layoffs, which cut deeply into the agency’s civil rights investigation arm. The lawsuit—filed in federal...

Will U.S. Education Department staff cuts limit options for kids with disabilities?

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

The Dallas Morning News For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive. Changes at the U.S. Education Department are likely to make the process even more difficult, advocates for kids with...

Department of Education cuts expected to have ‘huge impacts’ on teachers

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

KNEB-AM 960 AM Following the Department of Education’s gutting of nearly 50% of its workforce Tuesday evening, educators have expressed deep concern — not only for students’ futures but for their own as well. Tara Kini, chief of policy and programs at the Learning...

DC: Parents of kids with special needs respond to Dept. of Education investigation into DCPS

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | State

ABC7 NEWS Anacostia mother Andrea Jones said she had to fight D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) to get help for her son, who has autism spectrum disorder. “It was a lot of him just not being able to obtain the academics that he was entitled to,” she told 7News. Jones said...
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