The layoffs wiped out the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which ensures children with disabilities ...

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A new state-funded school catering for children with Autism and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) has recently ...

Special education advocates warn of how the Department of Education layoffs would hurt services for needy students.

Rachel Gittleman, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, discusses how the government ...

The Rhode Island Department of Education put out a new five-year plan for special education as uncertainty swirls in ...

The Central Bucks School District board declined to entertain former Superintendent Steven Yanni's resignation and voted to ...

President Trump's administration dismantled the U.S. Department of Education's special education division with mass layoffs.

Special education in public schools was tenuous even before the Trump administration cut staff at an office that administers ...

A weakened special education law puts pressure on parents. Typhoon-struck Alaksa communities race to rebuild before winter.

This tension intersects with another complex policy issue: disproportionality. Federal law flags schools if students from a ...

Parents of students in special education programs are anxious about fresh firings of federal workers within the Department of ...