Texas’s voucher program promised students with disabilities up to $30,000 in funding. Accessing it required a federal IEP evaluation that takes months under IDEA law. The application window was 41 days. With enrollment closing July 15, here is what families need to know.
Wisconsin FORT data shows teacher prep programs producing reading-science pass rates from 25% to 100%. The state has a science-of-reading law. But a mandate only reaches children when their teacher knows what it means. Here are the two questions every parent needs to ask.
New York is scrapping its pass-or-fail Regents graduation system. Every headline calls it modernization. The real story: for kids who have always been penalized by timed standardized tests, this is the overhaul that finally changes the rules of the game.
Texas eliminated the law requiring reading diagnostics for 7th graders already shown to be behind in reading. Spring 2026 STAAR results show 4 in 10 eighth graders still fail to meet grade-level expectations. Here is what that means for parents.
Five mothers. One documentary. The story of how NYC’s first public school designed for dyslexic readers came to exist — and what the largest school system in America was doing in the decades before that.
San Diego Unified joined Los Angeles in voting to remove screens from early classrooms. What the mainstream coverage misses is why this matters specifically for children still learning to read.
A bipartisan bill would give dyslexia its own IDEA category for the first time. But 27 disability organizations are sounding the alarm: the definition could revive the IQ-based gatekeeping model the field has spent two decades dismantling.
A bipartisan bill would give dyslexia its own IDEA category for the first time. But 27 disability organizations are sounding the alarm: the definition could revive the IQ-based gatekeeping model the field has spent two decades dismantling.
Los Angeles just banned classroom screens for its youngest students. The instinct is right — but for children who struggle with reading, what replaces the screen time matters far more than the ban itself.
Special education enrollment crossed 8.2 million children nationally, with some districts reporting 87 percent growth over a decade. A San Diego superintendent named what every waiting parent needs to hear: there is no funding left for the early interventions that would have changed that number.
