1+ hour, 45+ min ago  (464+ words) California lawmakers are considering a $2. 4 million proposal to launch the state's first statewide special education parent action network, an effort intended to give families training and tools to advocate for students with disabilities. Elk Grove Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen (D-10th District) announced…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (453+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom is ratcheting up spending on California's public schools as the number of students with extraordinary needs skyrockets. Newsom sidned away $2. 4 billion for special education, part of Newsom's recently signed California budget, is a stunning 43% increase over last…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (20+ words) CBS News Newsom makes historic announcement in California special education funding...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago  (216+ words) Last month was an eventful one at the Texas State Board of Education, and people in Texas are continuing to build on our ongoing campaign countering the Texas State Board of Education's revised standards for social studies curriculum and proposed…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (426+ words) Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. In a call with disability rights advocates Thursday, officials from the U. S. Department of Education tried to ease concerns about plans to move the agency's special education offices to…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago  (239+ words) EL SEGUNDO, Calif. " California Gov. Gavin Newsom, with the help of students, signed legislation Thursday investing in California's education that would support special needs students. "Everybody has the capacity to thrive," Newsom said during the Thursday news conference. "And that's…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1262+ words) Home " Rural Students with Profound Disabilities Deserve Better A COLUMN By Jaimie and Clayton Hulin, pictured with their son Camden I have talked at different points before about what it means to have skin in the game when it comes…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago  (603+ words) The decision for state intervention in Harrison County came after a review found concerns with spending and administrative overreach. Co-president of Education West Virginia Dale Lee weighs in on how flaws in the state school funding formula may have had…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago  (247+ words) Beginning as a small child, school is where you make friends and learn to process the world around you. Most of modern society is formed on the basis that people have received a formal education. Whether that education be from…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (695+ words) The recent report that nearly half of UC Berkeley law students receive disability accommodations should prompt a question that goes beyond whether students are gaming the system. If nearly half the students at one of America's most selective law schools…...