Special education
State and federal grants aren’t keeping up with the costs of the special education pre-K classrooms Tennessee districts are required to fund.
Philadelphia parents and advocates say kids with disabilities are regularly excluded or suspended from preschool. They want to ban the practice.
An advocacy group is raising concerns about what it says is the lack of federal oversight. The Education Department disputes the idea that it isn’t looking out for students.
Parents and disability advocates say moving key special education oversight to the Department of Health and Human Services was not a surprise, but it flies in the face of what they told Education Department officials.
Advocates for students with disabilities have been fighting the move for over a year, hoping overwhelming opposition might stop the Trump administration’s plans to move key oversight out of the U.S. Department of Education.
A facility school, Austin Centers for Exceptional Students, is facing scrutiny and a potential loss of state funding after concerns about how it restrains students.
To fix a shortage of facility schools for students with intense needs, Colorado lawmakers widened the rules. But one of the first new schools to open now faces state sanctions and a potential loss of funding.
The district’s Intensive Learning Support program was meant to boost students who are significantly academically behind their peers. But the district says it didn’t work very well.
Five new schools are opening in the Bronx and Queens this fall. Many of them will have an arts focus and embrace project-based learning. Two will exclusively serve students with disabilities.
Newark Public Schools feared bilingual students were being misidentified for special education services, so officials asked Rutgers for help.
DPSCD says it has improved special education evaluation waits in recent years. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said this week the district must aim for 100% compliance and improve parent communication.
The $20,000 settlement will be paid out in three installments over the next 10 months.
The state-mandated working group created the report and recommends more consistency in individualized education programs, translated materials, and more time for parents to prepare.
In a Q&A with Chalkbeat, Lindsey Burke, a Project 2025 author, tried to assuage concerns of parents of students with disabilities.
Backed by a five-year $3.75 million federal grant, Rutgers University will train special education teachers for administrative roles.
The legislation, supported by 47 of the City Council’s 51 members, would bring relief to thousands of paraprofessionals, whose starting salary is $32,000.
Adeel Khan says artificial intelligence can save teachers time by helping plan lessons and put together IEPs. But he acknowledges there’s a risk that it will just be used as a short cut.
In the past three years, Safeway has served around 1,000 people through its autism awareness training, special education support, and community events.
If schools were legally required to provide an adequate education for all kids, they might radically overhaul and improve their instruction, 2 researchers say.