Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, has lowered the burden for students with disabilities to sue their schools. The case centers on Minnesota student Ava Tharpe, who has a rare, severe ...

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

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DCPS says it is committed to ensuring students with disabilities receive services guaranteed to them under federal law.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded an investigation and found D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) discriminates against children with disabilities. Failure to correct this ...

President Donald Trump's Thursday executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education leaves wide open questions about whether the legal rights of students with disabilities will be protected ...

The nation has a new secretary of education and she’s angling to free her department from its special education obligations. The U.S. Senate voted 51 to 45 along party lines this week to confirm Linda ...

Louisiana’s publicly funded LA GATOR program helps families pay for private education. Nearly all of the students come from ...

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...