Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the federal law that governs the regulation and funding of special education. Recently, lawmakers in ...

When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was signed into law in 1975, it was a groundbreaking piece of legislation. For the first time, students with disabilities were guaranteed ...

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...

Parents will have more time to review the information a school district uses to determine whether their child receives special education services, thanks to a bipartisan bill the governor signed ...

A federal appeals court ruled against two Massachusetts families who argued that state special education laws are unfair to private school students, who must go off-campus to receive critical services ...

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four major education bills into law, introducing structured literacy instruction, expanded math requirements, and a codified Office of Special Education. The ...