U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says programs for students with disabilities could be divided among multiple ...

The National Study of Special Education Spending will be the first comprehensive, federally supported look into IDEA funding ...

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 ...

Congress mandates that millions of dollars each year go toward researching best practices in special education, but a new ...

Students with learning disabilities drop out of high school at more than double the typical rate (NSBA, 2019). While over 60% of students go to college, about 5% of those with learning disabilities do ...

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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 ...

Parents of students with disabilities along with their teachers and advocates were left wondering what comes next after President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to ...

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, ...