Legislation that could require parents of blind or deaf children to pay additional school fees is causing a stir amongst advocates for those with special needs.

Pueblo City Schools didn’t violate the rights of a special needs student, who at times was unable to control herself, by repeatedly confining her in a restraint device, a judge has ruled.

A woman smacked Steve Stokes in the head with her purse, knocking him out of his wheelchair. She told him he shouldn’t be out in public, that he belonged in a nursing home.
Stokes was a college student in the late 1960s, a time when disabled people often were treated as outcasts. Accessibility on college campuses virtually was nonexistent.

When Manuel Gonzalez started kindergarten, his mother, Jasmin, told administrators at Elkin Elementary School in Kensington that he’d been diagnosed with a learning disability while in Head Start.

For the second time in four years the state is investigating the enrollment process of the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology after complaints the elite charter school illegally screened applicants.

Today, we report on the growing number of MPS children facing learning, behavioral and physical challenges. As Erin Toner reports, the district has been fighting a lawsuit that claims MPS has failed such students, while the district insists it is making progress.

The Greene-Sullivan Special Education Cooperative administration has listened to concerns a parent recently brought up about planned changes in the developmental pre-school program for next school year.

It has been seven months since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died, so it was a bittersweet occasion Tuesday when President Barack Obama signed into law the health care reform the senator made part of his life’s work, one of his sons said yesterday.

Parents of a child with learning disabilities can sue a school district for ignoring the problems and failing to arrange tutoring or other educational help, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Montville High School senior Rusty Van Riper would see the students with disabilities sit together at lunch with their adult aides and after quickly eating, retreat to their self-contained classroom.