Youth Today
All posts tagged "IEP"
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504NewsToo hard or too easy: The ‘Big, Statewide Fight’ over Massachusetts graduation requirement
After collecting 170,000 signatures, the union got the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) graduation requirement question on November's ballot.The measure does not...
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1.0KNewsStudents with disabilities more likely to be suspended for disorderly conduct and insubordination
Categories like these are cited hundreds of thousands of times yearly to justify suspensions.
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1.5KNews‘She just wants a friend’: Families push for full school days for children with disabilities
Parents and advocates argue informal removals amount to discrimination against children with disabilities.
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3.2KNewsDisabled students at higher risks for arrests, dropping out and being unready for adulthood
Youth with disabilities are at least two-thirds of those in the juvenile justice system.
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2.7KNewsEffects of pandemic school closures linger, especially for students with disabilities
Students with disabilities were an “afterthought” for schools before the pandemic and remain so.
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3.2KFrom the BureausDisabilities sometimes go undiagnosed in homeless students targeted by new federal education funds, experts say
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
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4.0KFrom the BureausLack of special ed teachers keeps some autistic students ill-prepared for college or work
“My son didn’t receive failing grades,” said Eric’s mother, who asked to go unnamed. “Every report card had a ‘P’ for passing...
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2.7KNewsSome disabled students and their parents want remote learning to be a permanent option
Some advocates of students with disabilities are hoping lawmakers and educators will do more to ensure that remote learning is a more...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayLearning Disabled Students Need Better Protections and Supports as Schools Reopen
INSTA-PHOTOS/SHUTTERSTOCK Learners whom I prefer to call exceptional, rather than disabled, get teased more often than many of us care to acknowledge....
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3.3KNewsBetter Sex Ed Aims to Curb Abuse, Criminalizing of Youth with Disabilities
OLESIA BILKEI/SHUTTERSTOCK As his mother sees it, 16-year-old Nate Nemhauser’s main takeaway from sex education class back in fifth grade was that...
