President Donald Trump’s recent executive order laying out a plan for dismantling the federal Department of Education represents good news for families nationwide. As the mother of a child with ...

Relatively common diagnoses for which there is insufficient mainstream educational or behavioral support, such as autism and ADHD, have risen enough that now fully 15 percent of the school population ...

Over the past decade, the number of students with disabilities has been increasing, and there’s also a special education teacher shortage. That has made individualized education programs, which ...

I became a special education (special ed) teacher after 20-plus years of being a general education teacher. I wanted to work with and advocate for students with disabilities. I like my job, and my ...

Last year, Texas lawmakers approved major changes to the state's special education funding formulas.

Catholic schools and organizations work to include all young learners. Clockwise from top: The uniqueness of all students is embraced at Divine Mercy Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, Nativity Catholic ...

The Syracuse School District is hiring 50 teaching assistants to help the hundreds of special needs students entering kindergarten and first grade in the aftermath of the pandemic. About 20% of that ...

With 221 special education vacancies statewide, Iowa needs teachers. The University of Iowa is launching a special education ...