Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law who couldn’t enroll for the first 17 years of his life. These stories ...

KEWANEE, Ill. — The former American Legion building in Kewanee is set to become a new educational center for students with disabilities, bringing dozens of children closer to home while cutting costs ...

A new state audit finds the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education failed to properly investigate reports of alleged misconduct by teachers in the classroom. The 52-page audit ...

“Who the heck is going to administer this program?" The nation's special education services have been significantly impacted after Friday's mass layoffs within the Department of Education and it could ...

For the last 30 years, nearly every state has struggled to find and keep educators qualified to support students with disabilities. The intensity and variety of student needs makes special education a ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Wake schools paid $1.3M in special-education settlements through 2025. Families secured services and fees via 12 settlements citing ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education has laid off nearly half of its special education staff, the union representing employees said Monday. It is not yet clear exactly how many workers were ...

Layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education will leave no more than a handful of staffers in the agency’s special education office, jeopardizing oversight of the nation’s programs for students with ...

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 ...

On Friday, the Trump administration fired most employees at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The Department of Education office is tasked with protecting the rights of ...

WESTFIELD - More than 20 people, some virtually, attended the first Special Education Parent Advisory Committee (SEPAC) meeting of the school year on Sept. 11 in the Westfield River Elementary library ...