This article was published on The Gazette by O’Dell Isaac on August 12, 2021. Academy School District 20 on Thursday unveiled a new, $25 million elementary school, complete with a state-of-the-art STEM lab and a one-of-a-kind program for students with dyslexia. Encompass Heights Elementary School — a sprawling, two-story structure sitting on an 11-acre campus — is […]
This article was published on 1011Now by Bayley Bischof on August 12, 2021. LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – For most Lincoln Public School students in seventh grade or above, masks are optional. But not for everyone. Students in certain special education and life skills classes are required to mask up regardless of age or vaccination status. […]
This article was published on WRAL by Emily Walkenhorst on August 11, 2021. Education and child advocates visited the North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday to tell lawmakers their budget proposals aren’t enough to adequately fund public schools. Advocates urged lawmakers to fully fund the plan outlined in the quarter-century old Leandro education equity lawsuit. […]
This article was published on the Arizona Republic by Yana Kunichoff on August 11, 2021. As COVID-19 forced thousands of Arizona families in and out of remote learning last school year, Sadie Derton struggled through the difficult and often despairing work of supervising the online classes of her two children. This year, Derton was ready […]
This article was published on the Killeen Daily Herald by Emily Hilley-Sierzchula on August 10, 2021. A Texas special education hearing officer will decide whether the Killeen Independent School District will have to pay a family for required special education services that the family says the district did not provide their daughter. The first of […]
This article was published on The News & Observer by T. Keung Hui on August 9, 2021. Triangle school districts are offering thousands of dollars in recruitment bonuses to attract new special-education teachers to educate students returning to class later this month. Last week, the Wake County school board approved a $3,500 teacher recruitment bonus to fill […]
This article was published on DesignTaxi by Mikelle Leow on August 8, 2021. Joining the hundreds of thoughtfully designed font families on Google Fonts is ‘Atkinson Hyperlegible’, a typeface strategically optimized for the visually impaired. When tasked to revamp Braille Institute’s visual identity, design firm Applied Design Works took the reasonable approach of creating a wholly new typeface, poring […]
This article was published on Chalkbeat New York by Pooja Salhotra on August 4, 2021. A federal district judge has approved a settlement agreement between the education department and disability rights advocates in the Bronx, resolving a four-year-old lawsuit that challenged the city’s process for allocating certain special education services. The settlement, in effect for three years, […]
This article was published on ARLNow by Jo DeVoe on July 30, 2021. A multi-year legal battle between a family and Arlington Public Schools over the appropriateness of their child’s special education support ended this summer with a decision in APS’s favor, handed down by federal court. While the avenues for dispute resolution dead-end there […]
This article was published on EdSource by Carolyn Jones on July 30, 2021. To improve accountability and transparency in California’s special education system, funding should bypass local cost-sharing consortiums and go directly to school districts, according to a new report released Thursday. The report, compiled by researchers at the nonpartisan consulting firm West Ed, is […]