December 4, 2017
By: Cory Turner
Source: NPR Ed School voucher programs need (at least) three key ingredients: 1. Multiple schools (don’t roll your eyes, city dwellers, this one’s a brick wall for many rural parents). 2. A system that makes private schools affordable for low-income parents. Choice isn’t choice if it’s only the rich who get to […]
December 4, 2017
By: Courtney Astolfi
Source: Disability Scoop NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — Ehren Jackson didn’t understand why he was locked up in the Lorain County Detention Home for five days. He just knew that he wanted to go home. The 14-year-old North Ridgeville boy stands nearly 6-feet tall and weighs 200 pounds. But with an autism diagnosis […]
December 2, 2017
By: Rebecca Klein
Source: The Hechinger Report Julie Comeaux’s 17-year-old son, Matthew, is a student with special needs. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school. He has worked hard to keep up with his peers despite his difficulties. So when administrators at Matthew’s Louisiana high […]
November 30, 2017
By: Ally Marotti
Source: Disability Scoop CHICAGO — Hours before Woodfield Mall opened on a recent Sunday morning, before workers turned on the holiday lights and the halls filled with shoppers, 4-year-old Liam Munnelly’s parents placed him on Santa’s lap. Though Liam couldn’t talk back, Santa spoke to him, pointing at the decorations overhead. The […]
November 29, 2017
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week New Jersey wrongly billed Medicaid for more than $300 million worth of services that the state provided to students with disabilities between 2003 and 2015, and it needs to pay that money back, says a federal audit released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, the […]
November 29, 2017
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop An increasing number of American children have developmental disabilities, the federal government says, even as autism and intellectual disability rates remain largely steady. Between 2014 and 2016, the prevalence of developmental disabilities among kids ages 3 to 17 increased from 5.76 percent to 6.99 percent, according to figures released Wednesday from […]
November 28, 2017
By: Stephen Noonoo
Source: Edsurge In an era of breakneck change and tech innovation, evaluating dyslexia in young students looks much the same today as it has in the past: A struggling reader’s parents and teachers might sit down, gather information and assess the child on their strengths and weaknesses to determine a diagnosis and […]
November 28, 2017
By: Mimi Corcoran
Source: The Hechinger Report Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. These students are as smart as their peers but they are surrounded by the false perception that they are lazy and incapable. […]
November 28, 2017
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week The Senate has set Dec. 5 as the hearing date on the nomination of Johnny Collett, a former special education director for Kentucky, who was selected by the Trump administration to lead the federal office of special education and rehabilitative services. Collett’s nomination was released by the White House […]
November 28, 2017
By: Tim Goral
Source: District Administration How do districts define and identify their special needs students? And how does that compare with the way it is done in other districts and states? Moreover, do these students receive the help they need? A new report, the first in a series by the Frontline Research and Learning […]