by kids1stadvocac | Sep 16, 2025 | Federal
KFF Health News Devon Price, a 15-year-old boy with autism, has attended the largest school district in North Carolina for 10 years, but he cannot read or write. His twin sister, Danielle, who is also autistic, was bullied by classmates and became suicidal. Under...
by kids1stadvocac | Aug 26, 2025 | Federal
Education Week Civil rights staff laid off by the U.S. Department of Education will begin returning to work in September, the department told a federal judge this week. Roughly 25 employees from its office for civil rights are slated to return starting Sept. 8, in the...
by kids1stadvocac | Aug 19, 2025 | State
Arizona Capitol Times With empty desks and a heavy caseload at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, advocates for families with disabilities anticipate a pivot away from the federal route for discrimination complaint resolution. Instead,...
by kids1stadvocac | Aug 19, 2025 | Federal
Education Week A federal judge said Wednesday the U.S. Department of Education has not meaningfully complied with his June order to reinstate hundreds of civil rights enforcement staff after layoffs greatly reduced their ranks. The statement by Judge Myong J. Joun, a...
by kids1stadvocac | Aug 5, 2025 | Federal
The 74 Last December, after a year and a half of blind alleys, impenetrable paperwork, and bureaucratic stonewalling, it seemed like the complaints Sierra Rios had filed against her fifth-grader’s elementary school were finally getting a proper investigation. A lawyer...
