Special Education TODAY
Why I Serve on the Leadership Development Committee
As an assistive technology specialist and former special education teacher, I pursued a position on the Leadership Development Committee (LDC) as I felt that those roles, and former years as a...
Read more >Funding Early Childhood is the Right IDEA
This week, at the Division for Early Childhood conference, early childhood advocates came together to push for support for H.R. 5141, the Funding Early Childhood is the Right IDEA Act. The bill...
Read more >Biden-Harris Administration Announces Updated Resource to Support Early Childhood Inclusion
On November 28th, the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released an updated joint policy statement emphasizing the importance of supporting the inclusion of...
Read more >OCR Issues 2020-21 Data Reports
On November 15, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released data on equal access to education for the school year 2020-21. OCR’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a...
Read more >Education Partners Launch Teachers: Leaders Shaping Lives Campaign
The U.S. Department of Education, TEACH.org, and the One Million Teachers of Color Campaign have partnered on a public service awareness (PSA) campaign called “Teachers: Leaders Shaping Lives.“ The...
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