The Lafayette Parish School System will have two leaders for its special education department, one for assessment and compliance and the other for curriculum and instruction.

The Lafayette Parish School System has announced what it calls a “strategic restructuring” of its Special Education Department leadership.

Republican lawmakers writing the next two-year state budget are proposing to increase funding for most special education programs by $229 million.

The suits argued that layoffs left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce ...

and the Department of Health and Human Services would handle special education, nutrition and other related services. In response to the lawsuits challenging Mr. Trump's actions, a federal judge ...

It also blocks the department “from carrying out the President’s March 21, 2025 Directive to transfer management of federal student loans and special education functions out of the Department.” ...

The administration also wants the Small Business Administration to take over student loans and move special education services to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Joun's May 22 ...

Joun also blocked transferring the management of federal student loans and special education functions out of the Education Department. All fired federal employees from the department must be ...