#special-education

#special-education

West Contra Costa Unified School District teachers first took to the picket lines Thursday morning, demanding smaller class sizes, more resources for special education, and higher teacher salaries. RELATED: Still no deal in West Contra Costa teacher strike over staffing issues, pay The union wants a 5% increase over the next two years, and the district is only offering a one-time 3% raise.

American public schools educate more than seven million students with disabilities, who need access to specialized therapy services. But many public schools struggle to provide such services due to staffing shortages and limited resources. According to 2024 data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 55% of public schools cited insufficient mental health staff as a factor preventing schools from providing effective mental health services to students.

Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) standardized test results are set to be released next week after a delay. Results from the math and literacy testing are normally released earlier in the fall. But Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra said he wanted to take a deep dive this year before making them public. He has also suggested that some changes may be coming.

The deal Congress reached to re-open the federal government requires the Trump administration to reinstate federal workers who were fired in October, including those charged with overseeing the nation's special education laws. But it's not clear how long they'll be back. As NPR has reported, the Office for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) inside the U.S. Department of Education is the central nervous system for programs that support students with disabilities.

Noah was on an NRT bus, paid for by the Cambridge School District, on his way back from the New England Center for Children in Southborough. Linda Vick told Boston.com that she learned of the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 28, days later, when DCF alerted her to it. Looking back, Vick said her son's signing "all done" meant he didn't want to get back on the bus. "If we knew this happened, we would have known what he meant," Vick said.

'No Child Left Behind' poisoned us, and it's okay to accept when a child doesn't have the aptitude. I'm a freshman composition professor, and the number of students I get who are functionally illiterate is shockingly high. 'Special education has become a dumping ground for behavioral problems, and the kids who truly need it are being neglected.' 'Class sizes are too big.

Gajilan, who has worked at Reuters for more than 14 years and was then digital news director, had been reading about artificial intelligence and custom GPTstailored AI models that users could configure for specific tasks. After confirming her data would be private, she fed one of the models Tobey's report cards, neuropsychological evaluations and individualized education programs for his dyslexia. She also gave it his interests: dragons from the book series Wings of Fire, battles with Nerf guns, a song or two from Hamilton.

A man allegedly stabbed two teachers at a Torrance school for children with special needs Monday and threatened that he had a pipe bomb before he was taken into police custody, according to news reports. The unidentified suspect carried out his attack at the Switzer Learning Center around 8:30 a.m., reported KTLA. The man was described as a former student, according to KTLA.

"Federal law says children with developmental delays, including newborns with significant likelihood of a delay, can get early intervention from birth to age 3. States design their own programs and set their own funding levels, however. They also set some of the criteria for which newborns are automatically eligible, typically relying on qualifying conditions like Down syndrome or cerebral palsy, extreme prematurity or low birthweight. Nationally, far fewer infants and toddlers receive the therapies than should. The stats are particularly bleak for babies under the age of 1: Just 1 percent of these infants get help. Yet an estimated 13 percent of infants and toddlers likely qualify."

I think it's different, but we're still in the same situation: still stuck at home, and not with her peers, and not getting education. They don't care that she's not at school,

"For too long, working families have struggled with the cost of childcare. Years of high living costs have driven many New Yorkers out of the five boroughs."

Students of color are less likely to be identified with disabilities than similarly situated white students. This trend extends to students from non-English-speaking families, who also face similar under-identification.

"When we started with this my boys did not want anything to do with them. Now they're hand feeding them, they’ll pick them up..."

"Everyone should feel like they belong, that they are included," Vogel-Campbell said, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity for all students in graduation ceremonies.

Despite Pryor Cashman's repeated good faith attempts to obtain payment from iBrain, iBrain has failed and refused to make payment.

"For a special needs child, to change an environment for that child they've been thriving in, and also affect staff that are being very effective, disheartens me," he told San José Spotlight. "To receive an email ... that just said Special Day Class will not be offered next year, and your child will be going to another school ... feels disempowering as a parent when ... you've been told by the district it's a partnership."