January 24, 2018

By: Kate Thayer, Chicago Tribune/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop CHICAGO — At the start of a recent improv class, some teens excitedly joined in while others sat off to the side. Others said they’d rather go home. But after a few games, giggles and encouragement from teachers, all the students participated. Parents in the audience clutched […]

January 24, 2018

By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive Dive Brief: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is proposing to hire state-level teams to oversee and support districts’ efforts to provide educational services for students with special needs, Community Impact reports. The plan, which will cost roughly $84.5 million, is the TEA’s response to a U.S. Department of Education report released […]

January 24, 2018

By: Christina A. Samuels
Source: Education Week It’s easy to feel sorry for special education teachers. Challenging students, prickly parents, crushing paperwork: They all go with the territory, and contribute to a level of attrition among special educators that is said to be much higher than that of their regular education teaching peers. But those […]

January 23, 2018

By: Allison Ward, The Columbus Dispatch/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jake Vasiloff likes to rock. The 18-year-old is hard-core. He feels most comfortable when pounding on his electric drum set to the heavy-metal tunes of Pantera, Metallica and other bands. But he was more than willing to turn down the volume and set […]

January 23, 2018

By: Cory Turner
Source: NPR Ed “Trauma” is a heavy and haunting word. For many Americans, it conjures images of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The emotional toll from those wars made headlines and forced a healthcare reckoning at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician, would like to see […]

January 23, 2018

By: Alan Blinder and Daniel Victor
Source: The New York Times ATLANTA — On Tuesday, it was a high school in small-town Kentucky. On Monday, a school cafeteria outside Dallas and a charter school parking lot in New Orleans. And before that, a school bus in Iowa, a college campus in Southern California, a high […]

January 22, 2018

By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop Students with disabilities represent just 13 percent of the nation’s preschoolers, but a new report finds they account for three-quarters of all suspensions and expulsions. The figures come from an analysis out this month from the Center for American Progress. Researchers looked at data from the 2016 National Survey […]

January 22, 2018

By: Christina Samuels
Source: Children’s Health Insurance Gets Six-Year Extension The nearly three-week continuing resolution passed by Congress Monday to end a brief government shutdown includes a six-year funding package for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. CHIP covers 9 million children whose families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but who can’t afford insurance […]

January 21, 2018

By: Perry Stein
Source: The Washington Post Truesdell Education Campus has a problem. The school can’t keep its shelves stocked with the most popular books. Students are not-so-subtly reading in class when they should be paying attention to their teachers. And some boys are crowding the library before the morning bell even sounds. With the […]

January 18, 2018

By: Sally Lemke
Source: The Hechinger Report CHICAGO — Here’s a devastating fact for youth living in underserved neighborhoods: Poor health can translate into poor school attendance, lower educational achievement and a shorter life. Now here’s a better one: School-based healthcare offers this group a chance to beat the odds. Offered through safety-net clinics, school-based […]