July 25, 2019
By: Allen Kim
Source: CNN Bushland Independent School District in Amarillo, Texas, is taking an unusual step to promote a drug-free environment in its schools. Starting this fall, any seventh- through 12th-graders who request a school parking permit or participate in extracurricular activities — including sports, band, the student council and chess team — must […]
July 25, 2019
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop Federal legislation allocating over $1.8 billion in government spending on autism efforts is one step closer to being approved. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support, or Autism CARES, Act, by a voice vote Wednesday. The legislation, H.R. 1058, would renew a […]
July 25, 2019
By: Elissa Nadworny, Cory Turner
Source: NPR Roughly 9 million children — nearly 1 in 5 public school students in the U.S. — attend schools that are racially isolated and receive far less money than schools just a few miles away. That’s according to a sweeping new review of the nation’s most divisive school district borders from […]
July 24, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop A slew of new icons representing everything from wheelchairs to service animals are coming to smartphones soon. Apple said it will add 59 emoji including many representing the disability experience to iPhones and other devices as part of a software update this fall. Google indicated that the new disability-related […]
July 24, 2019
By: Andrew Ujifusa
Source: Education Week All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have some kind of investment board to direct different funding streams for workforce development, but only 12 states have career pathway systems that are primarily coordinated by the state’s K-12 system. Those are two main takeaways from a new Education […]
July 23, 2019
By: Valerie Strauss
Source: The Washington Post In January 2017, Betsy DeVos, who was soon to become President Trump’s education secretary, appeared before Congress at her confirmation hearing and displayed ignorance about a key federal law aimed at protecting students with disabilities. The law is the Individuals With Disabilities Act, known as IDEA, and DeVos appeared not […]
July 23, 2019
By: Evie Blad
Source: Education Week A Trump administration plan to tighten eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could have a secondary effect: hundreds of thousands of children losing automatic eligibility for free school lunches, child hunger groups warn. The proposal, announced Tuesday, would curb broad-based categorical eligibility, an provision that allows states to streamline the […]
July 23, 2019
By: Hallie Busta
Source: Education Dive Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Tuesday introduced bicameral legislation outlining a key piece of her proposal to expand student loan forgiveness to 42 million federal and private borrowers. Put forward with House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., the Student Loan Debt Relief Act would cancel up to $50,000 in debt for […]
July 23, 2019
By: Matt Barnum
Source: Chalkbeat What is to blame for America’s segregated schools? Housing patterns and school attendance boundaries play big roles, certainly. But some have also pointed the finger at another culprit: charter schools. An Associated Press analysis from 2017 found that about one in six charter schools were severely segregated, and implied that the schools […]
July 22, 2019
By: Bobby Allyn
Source: NPR Dozens of families in Pennsylvania received an alarming letter from their public school district this month informing parents that if their kid’s lunch debt was not settled, their child could be removed from their home and placed in foster care. Wyoming Valley West School District, one of the poorest districts […]