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Last year, as a seventh-grader at Lake Jackson Intermediate, Carolinda Acevedo struggled in class — even though she loves learning. She'd stay up late to…
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Restraint and seclusion are controversial practices in public schools. They are most often used on students with disabilities, and parents say they take an emotional toll.
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Lawmakers Urged To Spend More On 'Chronically Underfunded' Program That Helps Kids With DisabilitiesTwenty child advocacy groups and nonprofits called on Texas lawmakers this week to increase funding for a struggling program that helps more than 50,000...
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The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Texas Education Agency owes the federal government millions of dollars for failing to match a...
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From Texas Standard: Two years ago, the Houston Chronicle investigated how Texas had been creating the false impression that there was declining demand...
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The Texas Education Agency is starting the search for organizations to help school districts overhaul special education following a federal finding that…
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RICHARDSON — Jaculyn Zigtema, a special education director in Whitehouse ISD in East Texas, told state education officials Monday that she planned to hire…
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After gathering thousands of responses from parents and advocates, the Texas Education Agency has sketched a new plan for educating kids with disabilities…
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Texas says it promises to reform its special education services following federal findings that the state denied thousands of children those services for…
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The Texas Education Agency released a preliminary plan for reforming special education Thursday.In the plan, the TEA addresses federal concerns about…
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After a federal report blasted Texas for failing kids with disabilities, educators and public education advocates are pointing the finger directly at…
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Plus, DACA students living in limbo as proposals fly in Washington and new concerns about school funding inequality.