Special Education TODAY
President Trump Releases “Skinny” Budget for Fiscal Year 2026
This morning, the White House released a “skinny” budget for Fiscal Year 2026, outlining broad spending goals for the fiscal year that begins on October 1. Overall, the budget cuts the Department of...
Read more >Mental Health Grants Latest to be Cut by ED
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) plans to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants. This week, grantees received notices that the School-Based Mental Health Grants and the Mental Health...
Read more >States Drop Challenge to Section 504’s Constitutionality
In the court case Texas V. Becerra, 17 attorneys general who sued the Health and Human Services Administration (HHS) last year have stated that they would no longer seek to claim Section 504 of the...
Read more >Rooted in Aloha: Uplifting Native Hawaiian Students through Culturally Grounded Special Education
Summer Ursua is a Special Education Teacher at ʻEwa Makai Middle School on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.
How one educator is rewriting the narrative for keiki with exceptionalities through
... Read more >EO Requires Rewriting of School Discipline Policies
On Wednesday, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies that rejects the use of "discriminatory equity ideology" in classrooms. The EO’s...
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