For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities. Now, ...

Because the measure of a society is not how well it manages disability. It is how fully it embraces the humanity, dignity, and belonging of every person.

LANSING, Mich. (News 10) - The Michigan State Board of Education formed a bipartisan Special Education Committee earlier this month with the goal of boosting graduation rates for students with ...

As K–12 leaders evaluate a rapidly growing array of artificial intelligence tools, special education is one area where the impact of those tools can be especially significant. When used in special ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision takes a significant step toward addressing California’s long-underfunded special education system. Building on his January proposal to equalize base funding ...

Houston ISD Deputy Superintendent Kristen Hole speaks to the board of managers about special education services on May 14, 2026. Parents, teachers and students spoke out against Houston ISD's move to ...

As the U.S. Department of Education continues to transfer responsibilities to other agencies, disability advocates are concerned that special education could be up next. The Education Department said ...

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal law that governs the regulation and funding of special education. Recently, lawmakers in ...

How did Carter cases, intended as a backstop for the public school system in a limited number of instances, come to cost New York City over a billion dollars? My new Manhattan Institute brief shows ...

With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the groundwork to transfer special education out of the U.S. Department of Education.

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 ...

The Trump administration has taken the government shutdown as an opportunity to end federal oversight of the education services offered to more than 8 million children with disabilities in America.