Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

New data shows that the number of U.S. children eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act jumped significantly. Nearly 8.2 million kids ages 3 to 21 qualified for ...

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

President Donald Trump's Thursday executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education leaves wide open questions about whether the legal rights of students with disabilities will be protected ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded an investigation and found D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) discriminates against children with disabilities. Failure to correct this ...

My perspective on education was shaped at home, where I saw firsthand how targeted interventions gave my brother — who has ...

Louisiana’s publicly funded LA GATOR program helps families pay for private education. Nearly all of the students come from ...

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...