According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately one in six children in the ...

School officials say parents' heightened awareness, improved testing procedures and ... Southwest ISD conducted 572 initial special education evaluations last year, a 19% increase since the ...

The district is contracting with an outside company to score special education evaluation testing and turning to retired CCISD administrators and former special education department chairs to ...

“She was pushing for just a couple of special education teachers to come into the school and work with my daughter for a couple of hours a day,” interventions that had not been beneficial and did not ...

The report offers a look into how the state is doing when it comes to a number of topics in public education. Topics like school funding, teacher retention, special education evaluations ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin ISD is looking for new ways to address the spike in requests for special education evaluations within ... getting regularly scheduled tests. The district did not ...

when the district acceded to a strict timeline to eliminate its yearslong backlog of overdue special education evaluations. The order also requires the district to undergo extensive staff training ...

special education advocate Kandise Lucas said she was concerned with the “accuracy” of those documents, specifically concerning the policies and procedures, and independent evaluations based on her ...

Fort Bend ISD’s special education department ... also made progress on re-evaluations, which are broken into two categories that require different types of testing: Review of Existing Evaluation ...