San Diego-area districts are adding staff, classrooms and support services as special education enrollment rises sharply, ...

Fifty years after IDEA became law, new federal partnerships aim to improve special education programs and bolster civil rights protections for children.

Relatively common diagnoses for which there is insufficient mainstream educational or behavioral support, such as autism and ADHD, have risen enough that now fully 15 percent of the school population ...

Joan Mclaughlin, commissioner of the National Center on Special Education Research, has witnessed many changes and worked through some difficult times in her 13 years with the Education Department’s ...

Since students began returning to school after the early-pandemic shutdowns of spring 2020, the Revere school district just north of Boston has been inundated with unexpected special education ...

The capacity of the education sector to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities is broken, according to education secretary Bridget Phillipson.