Wyoming’s CHANGE Playbook reached 43% of the state’s students by replacing rigid curriculum with internships, life skills, and flexible schedules. Learning science documented the need for this approach decades ago. Here is what it means for parents of kids who learn differently.
Miss South Dakota’s Teen is classroom-hopping across the state with a dyslexia message backed by hard neuroscience, and the part she’s pointing to is something schools rarely say out loud.
Fifteen states are fighting to restore a billion dollars in school mental health funding. The research says that is worth protecting — and that kids with unidentified learning differences face the highest risk. Is your school asking the right question?
Watchdogs found $225 million in alleged K-12 fraud across 90 cases over six years. The research on education spending shows those dollars lift disadvantaged and struggling learners most. That is who paid when the money never made it to a classroom.
Lowell educators showcased a 35% drop in chronic absenteeism and 230%+ rise in family engagement. Harvard says the effect rivals poverty. Most schools still design families out of learning.
NC schools completed special ed evaluations on time for just 74% of referred students last year — Wake County hit 42.5%. Federal law requires 100%. If your child has an IEP or is waiting for one, these numbers matter and your rights are enforceable.
Indiana’s new law puts real guardrails on four-day school weeks. Buried in the fine print is an admission the research has been making for years: struggling readers bear the highest cost when instructional time shrinks.
Archbishop Sarah Mullally, who has dyslexia, told the Church of England’s General Synod there is a difference between neurodivergent people “functioning” and “flourishing.” For parents of children who learn differently, that distinction changes how you evaluate every support your child receives.
Parents reach for Beast Academy and hit a wall with dyscalculia kids. The problem is not the program — it is a category error most parents do not know they are making. Here is the science behind it and the four questions that cut through any curriculum review.
The federal office that monitored IDEA compliance moved out of the Education Department in June. A 10-bill House package would lock that transfer in permanently. For families with IEPs, what changed isn’t the law — it’s the enforcement capacity behind it.
