January 21, 2016
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: disabilityscoop.com The U.S. Supreme Court is asking the Obama administration to weigh in as it considers whether to take up a case brought by the family of a girl with cerebral palsy who sought to bring her service dog to school. The family of Ehlena Fry petitioned the Supreme Court to take […]
January 21, 2016
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: washingtonpost.com Congress last month finally rewrote No Child Left Behind (eight years late) and delivered a new K-12 education law to the country called the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA. The new law js intended to fix some of the most egregious problems with NCLB, and return significant education policy-making power […]
January 19, 2016
By: Grace Tatter
Source: tn.chalkbeat.org Black students are far less likely to be placed in gifted programs, even if they have the same test scores as their white peers and especially if their teacher is white, according to a new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University. And at least partly to blame may be a teaching […]
January 19, 2016
By: Michelle Diament
Source: disabilityscoop.com With funding gains for special education, housing and other disability programs, advocates say the federal government’s latest budget is a step in the right direction. The $1.1 trillion plan lawmakers approved last month boosts spending – at least a little bit – for most federal government programs that touch the lives […]
January 16, 2016
By: Diane Rado
Source: chicagotribune.com Almost half of school districts in Chicago’s suburbs would lose money under a dramatic proposal to rejigger how the state divvies up money to public schools, with affluent districts targeted for cuts and less wealthy districts set to get more state aid. To make it happen, the Illinois State Board of […]
January 16, 2016
By: Lee Hale
Source: npr.org All over the United States, schools are scrambling to find qualified special education teachers. There just aren’t enough of them to fill every open position. That means schools must often settle for people who are under-certified and inexperienced. Special ed is tough, and those who aren’t ready for the challenge may […]
January 15, 2016
By: Jane Meredith Adams
Source: edsource.org A week after a video showed a 9-year-old boy in special education being held aloft as a teacher’s aide slapped his face and onlookers laughed, three advocacy groups issued a demand letter to the California Department of Education on Friday calling on the state to take “quick and decisive” action […]
November 4, 2015
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has been called the most powerful education secretary for a reason.
He has led a department that has been criticized for being “a national school board” because of its micromanaging states on some key education issues.
November 4, 2015
Montgomery County largely follows legal requirements in providing special-education services but needs to go beyond that to more fully serve students and their parents in the high-performing school system, according to a report released Friday
November 4, 2015
By: Alyson Klein
Source: blogs.edweek.org If you care about K-12 education, there are two things you’re probably watching in Congress this fall: the federal budget process and the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. But, when it comes to some federal programs—including top priorities of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats—these two legislative […]