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June 29

Education policy Jun 29 Michigan’s Special Ed Gap Is 25 Points. One Question Could Start Closing It. Michigan's new bipartisan Special Education Committee is tackling a 25-point graduation gap. The science says the fix isn't more services or more inclusion alone — it's asking whether each support… Education policy Jun 29 Alabama Opens $7,000 for Educational Therapies to All Families Starting January Alabama's CHOOSE Act goes universal in January 2027, opening $7,000 per child for educational therapies and tutoring to every family. For kids who struggle with reading, the ESA is only…

June 28

Education policy Jun 28 Texas Vouchers Put Families With Disabled Kids in an Impossible Position 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… Education policy Jun 28 Texas Vouchers Put Families With Disabled Kids in an Impossible Position 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… Education policy Jun 28 Wisconsin Data Exposes the Teacher-Training Gap Behind Your Child’s Reading Results 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… Education policy Jun 28 New York Drops Regents-or-Fail Graduation and Learning-Different Kids Win 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… Education policy Jun 28 Texas Dropped the Reading Diagnostic That Caught Struggling 7th Graders 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…

June 27

Education policy Jun 27 The Special Ed Surge Is the Price of Wait-to-Fail Education 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:… Education policy Jun 27 What Broke Reading Instruction Is Breaking Math. New York Noticed. New York's 'math wars' look like a new argument. They're not — they're the reading science debate applied to arithmetic, and the districts already shifting toward explicit foundational instruction are… Education policy Jun 27 Oklahoma Bans the Reading Strategy That Trained Kids to Guess, Not Decode Oklahoma’s SB 1778 bans balanced literacy and whole-language methods from teacher preparation programs. Cognitive scientists called this approach wrong decades before any state moved against it. Here’s what the law…