With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the ...

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Young people with disabilities in the United States are guaranteed the right to a free and appropriate public education at federally funded schools. But with shifts and cuts at the Education ...

I have three children - first grade, Pre-K, and a 2-year-old. My eldest is in a public Wake County School and has a 504 Plan. My middle child is in a Private Pre-K and has an IEP, an individualized ...

Legislation designed to ensure that parents of students with disabilities are aware of a key right during individualized education program meetings is moving forward in Congress. The measure known as ...

After my son Mark lost his hearing as a baby, our family learned a lot about special education. From speech therapy to classroom amplification, the services and accommodations he qualified for helped ...

Over the past decade, the number of students with disabilities has been increasing, and there’s also a special education teacher shortage. That has made individualized education programs, which ...

The number of students in special education in the United States has doubled over the past four decades, with schools responsible for providing special services to a growing segment of their student ...

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Black students, for example, have been overrepresented in special education since 1968, when the U.S. Office for Civil Rights first began tracking school district data. The starkest disparities appear ...

Special education is designed to ensure students with disabilities can have their educational needs met, according to the U.S. Department of Education. In Wisconsin, there’s a wide range of reasons ...

Every fall, families get ready for the rituals of the school year: new backpacks, a fresh pencil case, and a smiling Instagram photo to show the hope and promise that parents expect education to ...