Special Education

School administrators are issuing fewer out-of-school suspensions, but Black students and students with disabilities remain more likely to get suspended. 

Continued use of masks and social distancing will pose unique communication challenges for children who are hard of hearing as they return to school over the next several weeks.

Fines arts programs had subsisted on a shoestring budget in Grand Rapids Public Schools but now its leaders will spend ESSER funds to buy art supplies, instruments and tickets to music festivals.

The 2021 Disproportionality in Special Education: Where, Why and How It Occurs -- Second Edition outlines everything you need to know to comply with IDEA requirements regarding significant disproportionality.

IEP and 504 Plan Implementation Strategies for Compliance and Student Success outlines the major pitfalls that lead to costly implementation failures and the concrete steps districts and individual educators can take minimize such mistakes.

Increased K-12 spending and COVID relief funds comes after years of underinvestment in K-12 education, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says.