The parents of an Oklahoma student contended that a school district violated their son's rights by placing him in a 'timeout' room even after his IEP was amended to stop its use. Read Full Post >
Data from a soon-to-be published report on RTI implementation shows that some states don't have a framework for evaluating program effectiveness. Read Full Post >
Tacoma, Wash., is among a growing number of districts seeking qualitative feedback on their special education programs from the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative. Read Full Post >
Judy Sorrell, the director of the Shenandoah Valley Regional Program for Special Education, is one of Education Week's 2013 Leaders to Learn From. Read Full Post >
Over the years, a special master had found that some students with disabilities were never picked up or picked up late, missing valuable time in school. Read Full Post >
The prospect of federal vouchers for students with disabilities seems to have dimmed for now because of Gov. Mitt Romney's defeat in the presidential election Tuesday. But in pockets across the country, voters took action in other ways that will directly affect special education students. In St. L... Read Full Post >
Talking with a group of foreigners about the U.S. special education system recently, I wondered how well the American system really works. Read Full Post >
About eight in 10 students with disabilities get the right number of sessions of services they need, but only seven in 10 get those services for the amount of time their educational plans say they should. Read Full Post >
The greatest number of complaints were about whether students were receiving a free, appropriate public education. Read Full Post >
The U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights found that during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years, more than 60 percent of students with disabilities in the district were in self-contained classrooms. Read Full Post >
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