Jazmyne Owens interviews policy expert Taryn Williams on the impact of federal cuts to disability policy and civil rights in ...
Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...
The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...
A budget agreement working its way through Congress rebuffs Trump administration efforts to make major changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and eliminate some disability programs ...
For decades, special education funding in Idaho and across the United States has been in crisis. Being critically underfunded ...
This guest essay reflects the views of Philip S. Cicero, retired superintendent of Lynbrook Public Schools. In the early 1970s, nearly 2 million students with disabilities could not attend public ...
Subsidize private education for the rich. School vouchers, on average, cover just 39% of middle school private school tuition across the sampled states. Even with a private school voucher, tuition ...
Even as challenges remain in expanding access to supports for island students, education officials are looking back on the ...
Government leaders and Guam Department of Education officials on Friday celebrated more than 50 years of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA.
Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...
She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...