Eli Clark, left, has been waiting nearly a year for an evaluation that would determine special-education services ... Their math teacher suggested testing for dyslexia, a learning disability ...

Austin’s public school system has cleared a major hurdle in its goal to keep control of its special education services ... has cleared the backlog in evaluations for students requesting the ...

said during public comment that eliminating special education in the principal evaluation would be “inadequate and very short sighted.” GIFTED AND TALENTED: HISD shifts to universal testing ...