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June 28

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… Dyslexia Jun 28 NYC Had 200,000 Dyslexic Students and No School Built for Them 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… Innovation Jun 28 San Diego Schools Pull Screens From Early Grades Starting This Fall 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. Dyslexia Jun 28 Congress Backs Dyslexia Rights and Quietly Resurrects the IQ Trap 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… Dyslexia Jun 28 Congress Backs Dyslexia Rights and Quietly Resurrects the IQ Trap 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… Innovation Jun 28 LAUSD Bans Classroom Screens Before Second Grade: Ask What Fills the Time 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…

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:… ADHD Jun 27 A Diagnosis System Built for Boys Keeps Missing Girls With ADHD The ADHD system was built to catch hyperactive boys. It systematically misses the quiet, organized girl in the front row who is working twice as hard as anyone knows. New… 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…