The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 28.7% of U.S. adults have a disability, but on these ...

Learn how mishandled IEP and 504 accommodations can harm Black disabled students, leading to disciplinary consequences and ...

The DeKalb County School District is not in compliance with how it implements specialized education plans for special-needs students, Georgia Department of Education officials said recently. The ...

Susan Popkin has a brother-in-law who was kept out of traditional education until high school. David Bateman has a brother-in-law who couldn’t enroll for the first 17 years of his life. These stories ...

Parents of children with special education accommodations deserve more transparency when exercising school choice, Democratic lawmakers argue. Under existing law, private schools receiving school ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Children across the United States have the right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), and that right is no different for kids within the special education system.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act turns 50 with educators and activists fighting to preserve the landmark achievement.

Last spring, Julia Kim’s students with disabilities at Fairmount Elementary in San Francisco were ready to take a new standardized test. They were excited that it had been built especially for them.

Perhaps no topic has as thoroughly vexed officials who oversee the nation’s leading test of academic progress as the wide variation among states and cities in the proportion of students with ...

In the backdrop of Liz Piñón’s living room are a whiteboard, educational posters, a bookshelf and many more items labeled in English and Spanish. A dining table behind the couch comfortably seats ...

The common-core tests being developed by two state coalitions offer the promise of more inclusion and self-sufficiency for students with special needs and for English-language learners. At the same ...