How well are we educating our disabled children in the US? It is a hard question to answer, but we can use US Department of Education data to make a start. This is the first part of the Disability Almanac report on the state of Special Education in the US for 2023. IDEA, the Individuals…
I am attending a mini-writing retreat today and tomorrow and just wrote this from a prompt. Thinking about Rosemerry Watola Trommer’s poem, “Hope.” I hate the word hope. I always have. This could be a reflection of my lifelong battle with clinical depression or my adult life as the mother of a now 33 year…
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is under imminent threat as the US responds to the COVID epidemic A provision in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act recently passed that requires the U.S. Department of Education to issue recommendations 30 days from March 27 to Congress on what wavier authority the…
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