EXCLUSIVE Special-education kids who would have been segregated in the past will be shifted into general-education classrooms under an ambitious program being launched in city public schools this fall. The move is intended to boost the students... Read more
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott will resign in July after five years on the front lines of the state's public education battles, the agency announced Tuesday. Appointed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2007, Scott has overseen a tumultuous period in which the agency... Read more
Taxpayers are on the hook for $425,000 to settle a federal lawsuit against the Detroit Public Schools over the death of a special education student. The settlement, disclosed in a filing today in U.S. District Court, resolves claims that a school aide in 2008... Read more
AUSTIN — This week lawmakers will examine one of the most expensive and controversial questions facing school districts: what to do with undisciplined children. State law requires districts to set up Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs for students from... Read more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — This week lawmakers will examine one of the most expensive and controversial questions facing school districts: what to do with undisciplined kids. State law requires districts to set up Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs for... Read more
CHERRY HILL, N.J. – When harsh words flew in a classroom for autistic children here, the school employees who spoke them likely thought no one in authority would ever hear."Shut up," shouted one staffer, unaware that a digital recorder was hidden in the pocket of... Read more
Tyler Maldonado-Bloodgood has come a long way from throwing himself onto furniture, screaming in frustration and banging his head against the wall. Through coping mechanisms and therapy, the third-grader at José Damian Elementary in the Canutillo Independent School... Read more
CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A southern New Jersey teacher who oversees a classroom where a father says his autistic son was verbally abused by adults has been placed on paid leave, according to district officials. The father, Stuart Chaifetz, posted clips on YouTube... Read more
When Sean Slattery, 17, looks at a page of text, he can see the letters. He can tell you the letters' names. He can even tell you what sounds those letters make. But it often takes a while for the articulate high school student from Simi Valley, Calif., to tell you... Read more
The Issue: How to explain the explosion in the number of diagnosed cases of autism in America. *** As a retired special-education teacher, I am alarmed by the so-called rise of autism cases (“Americas False Autism Epidemic,” Dr. Allen Frances,... Read more