Special Education Identification: What We Learned from the Unlocking Potential Data Sprint
Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) promised to bridge the gap between what students with disabilities need and what the public education system was designed to provide. Today, that bridge is at risk of collapse as ever-larger shares of students are identified with disabilities, only to languish without access to the […]
Special Education Is Broken. Our New Database Can Help Spark Way to Fix It
Advocates who have fought hard battles to preserve the right of children with disabilities to attend public schools have never faced a fight like this one. Last month’s cuts to the Office for Special Education Programs, which all but eliminated the agency charged with enforcing schools’ civil rights obligations, fly in the face of decades […]