by kids1stadvocac | Apr 29, 2025 | Federal
USA Today Amy Cupp was alarmed when her sixth-grade daughter came home from school with bruises in the shape of fingerprints. School staff had locked the girl in a room while trying to restrain her in November 2024, said Cupp, a social worker in rural Indiana. Her...
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 22, 2025 | Federal
Truthout A letter to Congress, signed by 15 disability rights groups, made clear that removing federal oversight of critical civil rights laws like IDEA “leaves students vulnerable to the variation in state implementation and threatens to bring us back to a...
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 22, 2025 | Federal
NPR Amy Cupp says that after weeks of trying to get G’s school to change the way it handled her daughter’s behavior, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, which investigates discrimination in...
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 22, 2025 | Federal
K-12 Dive Several Republican-led bills introduced in Congress this year propose how to divide up the U.S. Department of Education’s responsibilities among other federal agencies — and thereby carry out President Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the 45-year-old agency....
by kids1stadvocac | Apr 15, 2025 | State
Chalkbeat There was a time George Finley Jr. was on the honor roll. After the seventh grader started having epileptic seizures a couple of years ago, he experienced memory loss. Now, he’s far behind where he should be academically. The Detroit Public Schools Community...
