Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Minnesota teenager Ava T. lives with seizures that predominate in the morning, ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving a Minnesota school district and parents of a student with epilepsy who say the district didn't adequately accommodate her disability. The parents, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating D.C. Public Schools over reported disability discrimination. The department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter Thursday to ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A Minnesota public school district and a teenager with disabilities oscillated between radical agreement and outright hostility at the Supreme Court on Monday, forcing the justices ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday told employees ...

WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump took office again, the work of the federal office that investigates disability-related discrimination in U.S. schools quickly ground to a halt. Cases that had ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday attempting to shutter a federal department that aids students with disabilities.

WASHINGTON (7News) — The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) to determine if the district is failing students with special needs or ...

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The nation has a new secretary of education and she’s angling to free her department from its special education obligations. The U.S. Senate voted 51 to 45 along party lines this week to confirm Linda ...