It’s true that laws requiring special education will still stand even if the Education Department does not. However, its closure would shift responsibility to the states to allocate funding as they ...

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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has failed to comply with a federal law to provide necessary support for students with disabilities, according to a U.S ...

Some special needs students attending Defense Department schools are being underserved due to staffing shortages and high turnover among special education personnel, the U.S. Government ...

The administration laid off nearly half the Education Department's staff, The Hechinger Report revealed, and slashed its civil rights enforcement arm, and Trump says he wants to move special ...

Still, most parents and teachers have positive views about the emerging technology: More than 7 in 10 parents and 6 in 10 teachers say AI will make education more inclusive, the report found.

School staff who work with students with disabilities are sometimes hurt by the students they serve. That can make it harder to hire staff, at a time when there's already a nationwide shortage.

GREENWICH — The quality of Greenwich Public Schools' special education program is inconsistent across the district's 15 schools, according to a recent report by Public Consulting Group. Some of ...

Central Bucks Superintendent Steven Yanni was placed on leave after a report finding students were abused in a special education classroom at one of the district’s elementary schools. In a ...

In Wisconsin in 2023-24, the state Department of Public Instruction listed 124,572 Wisconsin public school students as having special education needs, out of 813,986 students. At 15.3%, this is ...

In Fort Bend ISD, just southwest of Houston, the number of students in special education programs has more than doubled since the 2014-15 school year, according to a 2023 report by the Texas ...

The “Final Report of the Task Force to Study Special Education Services and Funding,” issued on January 15, 2025, provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges faced by special education ...