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The state has set a June 30 deadline for districts to comply with a ban on Native American mascots, team names and logos in public schools.
President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a federal judge to strike down a Kentucky regulation that it says ...
The Rutgers Board of Governors appointed Wanda J. Blanchett, who has served as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of ...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to her agency as part of an overall effort to shutter her department — a goal she described as ...
In a survey across the Special Education Department, around 60% of respondents said the administration should better support grade-level and program planning time, and around 40.5% of department ...
Given those personnel challenges, monitoring and disbursing funds spent by the Department of Education on special education programs — $15.5 billion in 2024 — and guaranteeing that dollars ...
President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates ...
The administration also made no cuts to special education program funding. Trump signed a January executive order mandating that the Education Department work with states on how they can use ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 20 directing the closure of the U.S. Department of Education – a move that could significantly impact special education funding and ...
The policy also underscores the Education Department’s transformation under ... vacancies in the offices that oversee civil rights, special education and post-secondary education.
Donate now. President Donald Trump has promised to keep special education intact, even as he dismantles the federal department that has overseen it for nearly a half century. But some experts and ...
Special education is shifting to a different federal agency. Advocates fear the loss of expertise will harm students. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.