Wake says it’s attracting families with significant and complex disabilities who are filing special-education complaints.

The settlements involve families arguing their special-needs child’s right to a free and appropriate public education aren’t being met.

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Tennessee school districts have been footing the bill for special education pre-kindergarten ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off thousands of government employees, including nearly all of the workers in the Department of Education’s special ...

WASHINGTON – Families and educators across the country were plunged into a state of uncertainty over the weekend after the federal Education Department laid off practically every staffer in the ...

The Trump administration laid off 466 employees from the U.S. Department of Education amid a government shutdown. These layoffs affected the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, ...

Layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education will leave no more than a handful of staffers in the agency’s special education office, jeopardizing oversight of the nation’s programs for students with ...

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement. By Sarah Mervosh Michael C.

"He also knows that it's illegal," Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employeess, told theGrio of Trump's efforts to fire more federal workers. Mass layoffs by the ...

WASHINGTON — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s ...

A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and ...

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] — The government shutdown has reached its 13th day with no resolution in sight. Today, the Department of Education laid off nearly all its special education staff. The layoffs ...