Angela Powell had few options left before deciding to pull her autistic son from a traditional public school. The Tennessee mother said her son wasn't getting the services he was entitled to, even in ...

The Special Education Prom in SLO County originally started as an Eagle Scout project at Paso Robles High School, Williams ...

Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities are twice as likely as their peers to be persistently absent from school. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

Relatively common diagnoses for which there is insufficient mainstream educational or behavioral support, such as autism and ADHD, have risen enough that now fully 15 percent of the school population ...

Montgomery County parents are frustrated about proposed staffing changes in special education. Parents say paraeducator cuts ...

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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 ...

We’re failing our kids.” That’s a quote from a Fruitland mom who says her daughter and other kids who need special education ...

A Commerce special education teacher rallied his community to give students and families their first overnight trip and a ...

Nowhere is Michigan's education failure more pronounced than in its disregard of special education students. The four-year graduation rate for Michigan students with disabilities is 56%, a full 15 ...

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Left: Ed Martin was one of the authors of the law now known as IDEA. Before the law, children with disabilities were often turned away from public schools. "They were invisible," says Martin. Right: ...