Recently, I wrote a post titled, “6 Things I Wish I Knew Before My Kid's First IEP Meeting.” Although I am also an educator, I wanted to get the perspective of an Exceptional Children (EC) teacher. EC ...

The Houston Chronicle asked four special education advocates, parents and experts to help decode Texas' often-confusing and ever-changing special education system for parents. Those panelists covered ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Teachers across Indiana are using a new system to track some special education documents for students, but many are reporting problems. Those documents in the PowerSchool systems are ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A change in how Indiana tracks certain special education documents has led to confusion at the start of the new school year, with parents, teachers and districts scrambling to get ...

Sanford, N.C. — With school districts nationwide struggling to meet growing special education demands amid staffing shortages and political pressure to prove efficiency, Streamline, a new AI-powered ...

Young people with disabilities in the United States are guaranteed the right to a free and appropriate public education at federally funded schools. But with shifts and cuts at the Education ...

Advocating for your child shouldn’t feel like you’re drowning in a sea of confusing charts and numbers. Yet, for so many parents, the IEP progress monitoring reports they receive feel overwhelming.

There are typically more than 20 pages of information to cover during individualized education program (IEP) meetings. Sifting through lots of academic jargon can unintentionally make these meetings ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - One student at a time, a local law firm is working to help special education students in the Las Vegas Valley receive the education they’re entitled to. Under federal law ...

So I know I’ve told this story 1000 times, as it’s the incident that inspired this site so many years ago. It was my first IEP meeting with my school district. I was already in training to become an ...

For the nearly 60% of Wisconsin's youths who say they've dealt with at least one mental health challenge in the last year, prioritizing academic success and social connections may fall to the wayside ...

About 80 percent of students from kindergarten to grade 12 attend their individualized education program (IEP) meetings. In 2006, a large-scale study found that of those attending, only 12.2 percent ...