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St. Louis County's Special School District Is Eliminating Seclusion Rooms and Supine Restraints
...Special School District...Special School District of St. Louis...partner districts, announced...2026-27 school year. The...all SSD schools, programs,...partner districts, and contracted...found the district's practices...to every school district...every school district in the country,...2023-24 school years. According...letter, the district secluded...Litzsinger School, which serves...
Health > Alternative Medicine
Getting Music and Art Therapy Covered: Private Insurance, Medicaid, and Your Child's IEP
...certain states and the answer is yes, with a service code attached. Ask a school district after a formal assessment and the answer might be yes again, at...states and the answer is yes, with a service code attached. Ask a school district after a formal assessment and the answer might be yes again, at no cost...
News > Education
Education Department Confirms Special Education Staff Are Moving to HHS, With No Timeline
...the people who support states and school districts in carrying out the Individuals...people who support states and school districts in carrying out the Individuals with...distribute guidance, answer questions from districts, and monitor whether states are meeting...When a state misapplies IDEA or a district needs technical guidance, OSERS is...
Education > Special Education
30 States Failed to Meet Federal Special Education Requirements This Year. Here's How to Use Your State's Rating to Push Back.
You sit across the table, and the district tells you it's doing everything it can. Until now, there's been no real...real way to check whether that's true beyond the walls of your child's school. This month, the federal Department of Education handed every family in...
Education > Special Education
Your Legal Rights When a School Denies Extended School Year Services
...accept it, assuming the school made its call and there's...for a living. Extended School Year services are a legal...Act, not a summer perk a district hands out when staffing...Be Individual, Not a District Policy. Some districts...District Policy. Some districts still tell parents, informally...doesn't hold up. If a school ever answers a request...
Legal > Government Benefits
25 States Sue to Block Medicaid's New Work Requirements Rule for Disabled Adults
...states and Washington, D.C. filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts last week,...filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts last week, asking a judge to...early June. First, the 80-hours-a-month work, school, or volunteer requirement that most Medicaid beneficiaries...
Therapies > Speech
How to Request a Speech Therapy Evaluation Through Your School
...conversation in the hallway never started anything the school is required to act on. Under federal law, only...creates goodwill but no legal obligation. The school can act on it, or it can quietly slide to the bottom...Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which means the district has to respond, has to seek your consent to evaluate,...
Career > Skills Training
Pre-ETS for Students with IEPs: Workplace Skills Before Graduation
...(Pre-ETS), are designed to build job skills while school supports are still in place. Pre-ETS isn't a replacement...transition services. It's a parallel track. Your school district develops transition goals tied to academics,...transition services. It's a parallel track. Your school district develops transition goals tied to academics, independent...
Education > Special Education
New Hampshire Shifted the Due Process Burden to Schools in IEP Disputes. Is Your State Next?
...complaint against a school district over an...against a school district over an IEP, most...room and prove the school failed your child....your child. The district sits across the...the parent to the school district. Now,...parent to the school district. Now, when a parent...Hampshire, the district has to prove it...shift burden to districts. New York, New...
News > Education
Three School Employees Were Arrested for Abusing Children with Disabilities in a Special Education Classroom. Here's What Families Need to Know.
...at S.P. Morton Elementary School in Franklin, Virginia on charges...and retaliation at the same school. This case exposes how children...charges. Franklin City Public Schools completed an internal review...members from the classroom. The school district hasn't publicly disclosed...the classroom. The school district hasn't publicly disclosed how...
Education > Special Education
IEP Services Can't Be Cut by a Budget Crisis. Here's How to Hold Your School Accountable.
...shrink when your school district's budget...when your school district's budget does....need to know: a school district's budget...know: a school district's budget crisis...right now because school budgets are under...reimbursements, which provide schools $7.5 billion annually...data shows 80% of school leaders expect...their IEP, and a school's inability to...
Assistive Tech > Mobility
Wheelchair-Accessible School Bus Transportation: Legal Rights and Practical Solutions
The school district just... The school district just told you...service that school districts must...that school districts must provide...access, the district doesn't get to...enforce it when districts try to avoid...transportation to get to school and their disability...standard bus, the district is required to...legal mandate. Districts sometimes frame...