Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

Jazmyne Owens interviews policy expert Taryn Williams on the impact of federal cuts to disability policy and civil rights in ...

Assistive technology can help students with disabilities, but schools face challenges using it to its full potential.

For decades, special education funding in Idaho and across the United States has been in crisis. Being critically underfunded ...

A key U.S. Senate panel rejected a Trump administration push to make major changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and defund some disability programs, but significant uncertainty ...

Even as challenges remain in expanding access to supports for island students, education officials are looking back on the ...

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Philip S. Cicero, retired superintendent of Lynbrook Public Schools. In the early 1970s, nearly 2 million students with disabilities could not attend public ...

It had been over a year since Carla and Byron Scott’s 10-year-old son, Tyler, was diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and adjustment disorder. The couple questioned whether Tyler’s teachers in Portsmouth, ...

Government leaders and Guam Department of Education officials on Friday celebrated more than 50 years of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA.

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

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, ...