While many services will continue, Congress’ failure to fund the government could have big implications for people with disabilities who depend on a wide array of federal programs. Democrats and ...

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Recent layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education have impacted the office overseeing special education. A federal judge has temporarily paused the layoffs, but uncertainty for special education ...

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 ...

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But, in interviews with 40 parents, educators, disability-rights advocates, subject matter experts and Education Department staffers, NPR heard a growing fear: that the Trump administration's efforts ...

The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff members who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. 50 years after the birth of special education, some ...