Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

For the last 30 years, nearly every state has struggled to find and keep educators qualified to support students with disabilities. The intensity and variety of student needs makes special education a ...

Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...

March 12, 2026 - A settlement was recently reached in a class-action case, requiring LAUSD to offer intensive "high-dose" tutoring to 100,000 students for three years. As a child, Saran Tugsjargal’s ...