(Charlie Riedel, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) December 2 marks Special Education Day in the United States, a day to celebrate the ...
Montgomery County parents are frustrated about proposed staffing changes in special education. Parents say paraeducator cuts ...
Left: Ed Martin was one of the authors of the law now known as IDEA. Before the law, children with disabilities were often turned away from public schools. "They were invisible," says Martin. Right: ...
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Every week, about 45 new names land on Steph Smith's desk, all hoping for a place at her school. Sadly, most will be ...
Flaws in Connecticut’s special education system are impeding the state’s ability to provide adequate services to students, ...
It costs nearly four times as much to educate a special education student as other students in Seattle Public Schools. This difference largely stems from bureaucratic overhead required by 1970s ...
But, in interviews with 40 parents, educators, disability-rights advocates, subject matter experts and Education Department staffers, NPR heard a growing fear: that the Trump administration's efforts ...
Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...