During this dark time, the United States Department of Education recently issued written informal guidance regarding the provision of school services to chil...

Approximately 725,000 children in California qualify for K-12 special education services. A policy report issued in February 2020 by PACE, a nonpartisan poli...

School districts often ask parents to waive special education rights, and sometimes parents choose to waive these rights without any encouragement from the s...

An important case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, has provoked a discussion about the appropriateness of private school placements for children w...

One of the evils Congress sought to remedy with the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Act which was revised and renamed the Individuals with Disab...

1. A functional behavior assessment (FBA) is a specialized evaluation of a student's behavior. 2. The purpose of the FBA is to determine the reasons for the ...

On December 24, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in A.T. v. Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District, et al. This case concerns...

Lots of wonderful assistive technology tools and apps are available for parents searching for help for their dyslexic child. The California Department of Edu...

Such a tragic case. Back in November 2018, staff at the Guiding Hands School, which is a nonpublic school in El Dorado Hills, California, allegedly killed a ...

Back in 2016, the U.S. Department of Education made available to the public final regulations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the "IDE...

Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Act "IDEA" to ensure that all children with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education...

"Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me." Fred Rogers Children of undocumented immigrants have a right to be educated After the ICE raids...

Disability advocates and former education officials met with Trump administration representatives from the Department of Education last month to warn against...