Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

One main responsibility for principals: supporting their teachers. But some special education teachers, who deal with heavy caseloads, mountains of paperwork, and individualized expectations feel like ...

WASHINGTON – For New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, it felt personal watching more than 120 jobs tied to special education disappear during the U.S. government shutdown. President Donald Trump ordered ...

About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the ...

Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law who couldn’t enroll for the first 17 years of his life. These stories ...

WBEZ found CPS cut about 1,000 positions last spring. Then, weeks into this school year, it opened hundreds of new jobs. The district says this approach is helping to ensure that all schools get ...

Proficiency levels have gone up among special ed students kept in class with their peers. (Jackie Mader/Hechinger Report) When Bethany Jolliffe started teaching kindergarten 15 years ago, she picked ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Wake schools paid $1.3M in special-education settlements through 2025. Families secured services and fees via 12 settlements citing ...

Public school leaders in Baton Rouge are looking to pay a prominent Boston-based consulting firm up to $150,000 to help it figure out how to exit heightened state scrutiny of its special education ...