The state board of education banned the use of readers on some state tests, whether that means people or computer software that read text aloud, an accommodation used by some students with disabilities, who also use this kind of help in class every day.
Parents and students with disabilities aren't as involved in the process of mapping out their goals with schools as much they should be, and schools could do more to make the process more welcoming.
There are still lots of questions about how response-to-intervention is used, and whether it's being used correctly, considering that federal rules about identifying students with disabilities haven't changed.
"We've had now 30 years of access for students with disabilities to go school. They're coming out of that system with a different expectation: Their education should continue."
Disability advocates are upset that some Wisconsin school districts want to be able to cut special education spending, without being punished the way federal law requires.
The Obama administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up an appeal from a school district ordered to provide compensatory tutoring because it failed to identify a student's disability.
A federal judge has ruled that District of Columbia public schools must make sweeping changes to how young children with disabilities are located and served.
As the number of children diagnosed with autism has increased over the last few years, new research finds these students are disproportionately involved in lawsuits about whether they are getting a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive setting as required by federal law.
Nationally, about 3 percent of children younger than three get services to address their disability or potential to have a disability, but data shows that as many as 13 percent of all children in that age group should be served.
Spending for four programs--special education, Title I, teacher quality, and career and technical education--for the current school year was cut, presumably well after most states and school districts had spending plans for the year in place.
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