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COPAA Releases Report on Private School Choice Programs

by kids1stadvocac | Jan 27, 2026 | Federal

As a thought leader committed to ensuring that students with disabilities and their families have all the information they need to make an informed choice, on Monday, COPAA  released “Private School Choice Programs: Is There a Seat for Students with...

FL: As lawmakers fix Florida’s school voucher system, educators, students cope with financial fallout

by kids1stadvocac | Jan 20, 2026 | State

WLRN After Juliet Sanomi came to the realization that traditional public school wasn’t the right setting for her son, who has autism, she decided to take matters into her own hands. She started a school where he and others like him would thrive. She began that...

WA: 54 families now taking legal action against former school for students with special needs

by kids1stadvocac | Dec 2, 2025 | State

king5.com More than 50 families are stepping forward, taking legal action against a former school for children with special needs that received public funding. Several public school districts in western Washington had contracts to send students to the Northwest School...

TN: LGBTQ+, disabled students face exclusion from private schools

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 18, 2025 | State

Nashville Banner More than 170 of the 241 Tennessee private schools eligible to receive state-funded vouchers in the first year of the Education Freedom Scholarship program have a publicly listed admission inclusion policy. Many of the schools post a version of this...

CT: UConn grapples with the legacy of a CT institution for the disabled

by kids1stadvocac | Nov 11, 2025 | State

CT Mirror English professor Brenda Brueggemann had driven by the memorial stone, the grassy grove, and the architectural shells of the shuttered institution every day for years on her way to teach at the University of Connecticut. The campus of the former Mansfield...
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