Policy/Advocacy

On Thursday, the White House hosted a roundtable featuring the next generation of young Black leaders with disabilities. Valerie Williams, director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)...

In her third blog of the series on Discipline and Behavior, Valerie Williams, director of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), explains the importance of tracking “informal removals,” the...

On Monday, CEC senior staff attended a town hall meeting hosted by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that focused on the need to increase...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced the first-ever Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program grants with awards totaling over $18M. The program, “[N]amed for Augustus F...

In a Rand Corporation Report, written by Melissa Kay Diliberti and Heather L. Schwartz, and released on Thursday, the authors note that while educator turnover has increased, districts are taking...

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), along with disability and civil rights partners, has released a new report, “Inclusive, Innovative Assessments for Students with Learning...

On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing, American Education in Crisis. Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) opened the hearing by remarking that “From elementary...

Mark Schneider, Director of Institute of Education Sciences (IES), announced an IES initiative to create what is being named as ARPA-ED, patterned after the transformative work of the Defense Advanced...

The Committee for Children published an exploratory brief, “Leveraging Medicaid to Fund School-Based Primary Prevention Programs and Services,” which examines how Medicaid can be leveraged to provide...

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has reintroduced a bill to reauthorize the Scholarships for Opportunities and Results (SOAR) Act, also known as the DC Voucher program. The SOAR Act is the only federal...