special education

Do Charter Schools Under-Enroll Special Needs Kids?

 A common complaint about charter schools is that they tend to enroll fewer kids with disabilities than traditional public schools.…

12 years ago

On Romney’s Special Education Voucher Plan

There’s an item from Gov. Romney’s education agenda that hasn’t gotten enough notice, and it’s not his seesaw on whether…

12 years ago

U.S. DOE: East Orange Oversegregates Kids with Disabilities

EdWeek’s special education blog is reporting that the U.S. Department of Education has finished its investigation of the East Orange…

12 years ago

Confronting the High Costs of Special Education in NJ

My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey's high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of…

12 years ago

Mapping the Christie Education Agenda (plus, special ed)

Check out my column today at NJ Spotlight, which reviews the Christie Administration's education agenda in light of the three…

12 years ago

Highlights from the NJ DOE’s Education Transformation Task Force Report

Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report…

12 years ago

Education Law Center Files OPRA Request for Lakewood

Education Law Center has filed an OPRA request for “detailed documentation about the Lakewood school district's plan to reconfigure school…

12 years ago

Provocative Thought of the Day

Via Dr. Miriam Kurtzig Freedman in the University of Chicago Law Review (hat tip Joanne Jacobs):It is time to end…

12 years ago

Parent Responds to Changes in U.S. DOE Special Ed Accountability

A parent of a child on the autistic spectrum responds to the U.S. DOE’s plans to “help close the achievement…

12 years ago

Romney Needs an I.E.P.* on School Funding

The big education story today is Mitt Romney's “education platform,” which was unveiled, curiously, during a speech to the Latino…

13 years ago