The Education Department is handing off two of its most important functions, giving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies. With the ...

The difference sounds academic until you sit in an IEP meeting and watch which language wins. A medical model asks what is wrong with this student; an educational model asks what this student is ready ...

While a top official says students will retain all their rights under federal law, some advocates and lawmakers call the ...

Special education programs help schools serve more than seven million K-12 students with disabilities nationwide.

The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

The U.S. Department of Education's transfer of its special education and civil rights offices is likely to cause confusion ...

A career in special education often starts with passion. "For many, it's more than a job," said Dr. Danny Tanguay, an academic dean of education at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). "It's a ...

The change could have particular effects in Pennsylvania, which has one of the nation’s highest shares of students with disabilities.