Missouri’s education department sent its A-F school grading plan with its own warning attached: data quality concerns, IT gaps, a compressed timeline. Research finds these grades track the demographics of who attends a school more than how well it teaches. Here’s what parents of struggling learners should ask instead.
Arizona parents submitted 421,000 signatures to force an ESA accountability vote. For families of kids who learn differently, the real accountability gap is not financial. It’s instructional. Here are the four questions that actually matter when choosing any school.
Ohio’s $2.5 million investment in Structured Literacy Centers includes a program targeting grades 4-8 specifically. Most state reading laws do not go there. Here’s what that means for your child.
AI is forcing universities to ask whether written tests actually measure learning. For parents of children with dyslexia, that question has never been new — and the researchers’ answers point in a direction special education has argued for years.
Michigan ranked 44th in fourth-grade reading. The bipartisan budget it passed in July 2026 bets $75 million on retraining teachers in the science of reading. Here’s why that line item matters more than the $502 million headline, and what parents everywhere should be asking.
DC Public Schools signed a federal resolution agreement after OCR found the district violated disability law for years — evaluation delays, services dropped for convenience, untrained staff deciding what kids needed. DC had more special ed complaints per capita than any state. The mechanism that was supposed to protect these kids required families to fight for it.
Idaho became one of the first five states to put K-12 AI classroom rules into law this July. The same week, Microsoft reported 53 percent of teachers have never had formal AI training. There is a three-year gap between the mandate and the readiness, and your child lives in it now.
Georgia honored five schools for embedding arts across every subject, not as enrichment, but as instruction. The science of reading has known for decades that multi-sensory learning is how struggling brains build the pathways that direct instruction alone misses. Here is what a state arts award means for your child.
Alabama put $174 million in education savings accounts directly into parent hands on July 1. Tutoring and educational therapies are explicitly covered. For families of kids who learn differently, the question is knowing exactly how to spend it.
Alabama put $174 million in education savings accounts directly into parent hands on July 1. Tutoring and educational therapies are explicitly covered. For families of kids who learn differently, the question is knowing exactly how to spend it.
