As the U.S. Department of Education accelerates efforts to dismantle the agency, the implications for students with disabilities remain murky.

Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

DALLAS — As part of Texas’ $1 billion school voucher-style program, children with disabilities can receive up to $30,000 to go toward private schooling this fall. Lawmakers have promised Texas ...

Special education and disability represent an evolving field that spans legal, pedagogical, and practical domains. In recent decades, traditional segregated schooling practices have largely been ...

The nation has a new secretary of education and she’s angling to free her department from its special education obligations. The U.S. Senate voted 51 to 45 along party lines this week to confirm Linda ...

A disabled student plays a game at the Innovation Center. (File photo courtesy San Diego County Office of Education) Javier Arroyo has been impressed with the education his 9-year-old son with a ...

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to... How the Education Department helps students with ...