North Texas school districts rarely provide special education resources in Spanish causing some dual language kids to slip through the cracks. Continue reading “Many local bilingual special ed kids are cheated by schools. Here’s how it happens”
Excerpt: Though disruptions continue and statutes of limitations on missed services have yet to expire in some places, a lawsuit spike hasn’t materialized. Texas schools also opened up for in-person… Continue reading “Remote learning special ed litigation lower than expected”
The Texas Education Agency has failed to show it sufficiently addressed any of the U.S. Department of Education’s requirements for improving special education across the state, federal officials said in a… Continue reading “Feds ‘cannot determine’ whether Texas has made progress fixing special ed violations”
To help students with disabilities, Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new program that would give eligible families $1,500. The money can be used to pay for tutoring, therapy and technology… Continue reading “Special Ed. Students Could Get $1,500 In COVID-19 Relief Funds But Parents Say That Fails To Make Up For Student ‘Regression’”
The videos below are provided in American Sign Language (ASL) and cover issues related to the education of students with disabilities. Also, the SPEDTex website includes ASL videos about the… Continue reading “Education Videos in ASL”
For more than 580,000 Texas students with disabilities, public school closures in the wake of COVID-19 have caused substantial delays in special education and early childhood intervention (ECI) services. State… Continue reading “Federal COVID-19 Emergency Education Funding Must Prioritize Texas Youth with Disabilities”
As schools pivot to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus and the illness it produces, COVID-19, education leaders are scrambling to figure out… Continue reading “Schools and students with disabilities likely to struggle with special ed at a distance”
Youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system face hurdles in accessing education. Schools often refer to the system without identifying a student’s need for special education services or providing… Continue reading “Changing the Course of Young Lives Through Education”
This timeline reflects the history of the Texas Education Agency’s illegal 8.5 percent cap on special education enrollment and the correction action plan to make it right. Continue reading “Keep Tabs on TEA: Timeline of Illegal Limit on Texas Special Ed”
The U.S. Department of Education decision that the TEA had short changed students with disabilities in state aid in the 2011-2012 school year is not an isolated violation of federal law. In a review of the state’s most recent application for a federal special education grant, Disability Rights Texas has uncovered that TEA budget officials acknowledge that under the U.S. Department of Education standard for state special education outlays, Texas did not spend at the appropriate rate on students with disabilities in the 2016-2017 school year. Continue reading “Texas in Violation of Federal Education Law for Second Time, Likely a Third”