Miriam Freedman, the author of Special Education 2.0, will speak tomorrow at the Fordham Institute in Washington DC in conversation with Chester E Finn, Jr., Distinguished Senior Fellow and President […]
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A 7-year-old transgender girl was all ready to testify at a Texas House State Affairs Committee Hearing this week. But as the session went on deep into the night, the
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When Robert Rico began his career as a police officer in Boerne, Texas, he took a traditional approach to his job. “I thought my job was to [maintain the law]
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In the Legal Digest’s Transgender Guide published last year, we reported on a case out of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that Title VII does not apply to
Miriam Freedman, a special education expert and the author of several resources published by Legal Digest and Ed311, calls the recent Supreme Court ruling on IDEA “both reasonable and workable”
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Following a series of articles by the Houston Chronicle, which alleged that school districts in Texas were denying eligible students access to special education services, the Houston Independent School district
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In a detour from discussion on the controversial “bathroom bill”, Senate Bill 6, the Texas House will discuss a new bill this week designed to prevent school districts from making
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Last Thursday, the Senate voted to approve SB 3, a bill that would authorize the creation of subsidy programs for families who choose to homeschool their children or send them
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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that schools must give students with disabilities education plans that are “appropriately ambitious”, creating a precedent that could have a big bearing on special
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Kevin Curtis is a firm believer that there is one thing that separates good educators from great educators, a “secret sauce” so to speak. “It’s relationships,” said Curtis, a former
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