During her son Ben's time in school, Alison Peetz became an expert in advocating for his needs. Ben — who is now an adult — is autistic and has a language processing disorder. Peetz described Ben's ...

California resident Katie Prather remembers thinking that her son, who has autism, could have mastered math skills if he had less work to complete in elementary school. By middle school, she thought ...

NEW YORK CITY — Data inoperability continues to be one of K-12 education’s most enduring challenges, and the lack of transferable, translatable data systems can severely disrupt student services when ...

Each year, a greater percentage of students in California qualify for special education. Last year, about 13% of students in California’s K-12 public schools received individualized services for ...

Kimi Matsumura remembers the first time she attempted to get an Individual Education Plan for her daughter, Mei. Mei, then 3, had recently aged out of Early Intervention, a federal program under the ...

Project 2025, the oft-mentioned conservative policy manual, proposes broad changes to the federal government’s role in education. But a widely shared claim that it somehow eliminates the education of ...

It’s December 2013. My husband and I sit around a tiny table in a brightly decorated preschool classroom—we’re nervous newbies at our first IEP meeting for our son Kaleb, who has Down syndrome.

In most local school districts, the number of students with Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs, has risen over the past decades, outpacing a smaller upward trend statewide. This school year, 17.4 ...