Gina Gandolfi, right, and her 10-year-old son Nathan Gandolfi in his bedroom in Highland on April 16, 2025. Gina worries about how President Donald Trump’s cuts to the Department of Education ...

The Education Department currently disperses the money and makes sure states spend the money on students with disabilities. The agency spent $15.5 billion on special education programs for ...

Federal lawmakers are seeking answers from the U.S. Department of Education amid efforts to shutter the agency and reassign “special needs” programs elsewhere. In a letter to Secretary of Education ...

A special education leader under the George W. Bush administration says the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact students with disabilities. Stephanie Smith Lee now serves as ...

The president said federal student loans would move to the Small Business Administration, and hinted that the Department of Health and Human Services would take over special education oversight.

Advocates have warned that shuttering the Education Department could have an outsized impact on the nation’s 7.5 million special education students. The agency distributes billions in funding to ...

Trump has issued an executive order to get rid of the Department of Education, but Congress has the final approval. Howard County parents and special educators have been sounding the alarm on the ...