Advocates warn that without federal oversight staff, there would be no accountability for how states implement disability ...

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The Trump administration gutted the federal office overseeing special education. Wisconsin disability advocates are worried ...

Kim Pinckney is worried for her son. The New Jersey mom has been watching as the Trump administration has used the federal ...

The president of the New Jersey School Board Association’s board of directors was removed last week after she was accused of ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws.

Special education in public schools was tenuous even before the Trump administration cut staff at an office that administers ...

The layoffs wiped out the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which ensures children with disabilities ...

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low ...

The prolonged government shutdown is helping the Trump administration advance its goal of closing the Department of Education ...

Updated: This page has been edited to include more up-to-date figures on U.S. Department of Education employee layoffs from a ...

Teacher April Wilson, who works with visually impaired students, works with a student at Bond County Early Childhood Center ...