Children of active duty military, those attending D-graded schools, and children adopted from the foster care system will now qualify for Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. Read Full Post >
School districts would partner with universities or nonprofit organizations to create training programs for general education teachers who have a many high-functioning students with autism in their classes. Read Full Post >
Easter Seals says that each year there are about 5 million children at risk for developmental delays, but only about 1 million actually get early intervention services Read Full Post >
Among the work going on now is a review of practices across the district that will take inventory of the very best of these, then share them, something that doesn't always happen in the frenetic pace of a school year. Read Full Post >
The federal government is expected to cut the money from South Carolina's share of federal special education dollars on Oct. 1, a penalty for past cuts the state made to its own budget for working with students with disabilities. Read Full Post >
Georgia's 27-year-old Quality Basic Education Act may give schools a financial incentive to segregate students with disabilities. Read Full Post >
The U.S. Department of Education took back an offer it made to school districts last summer, an offer that would have allowed districts to cut special education spending and suffer fewer penalties than in the past. Read Full Post >
The president proposes increasing spending under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which provides special education programs for infants and toddlers, by $20 million, for a total of $462.7 million. Read Full Post >
A new letter from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights expands the definition of students for whom school districts' may have to provide special education services and accommodations, including some who in the past may have been found not to need those services. Read Full Post >
Some special education advocates want the U.S. Department of Education to rescind their interpretation of federal special education spending rules. Read Full Post >
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