This “manual for conservative policy thought” would transform American education from start to finish.

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Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York are involved in investigations of Shrub Oak International School.

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Disabled Youth Today covers issues of interest to youth with disabilities and those who care for and work with them.

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Only 55% of schools in Michigan’s 25 largest districts showed patterns of equitable spending.

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University of San Diego professors are developing programs to empower neurodivergent students to thrive.

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Different treatment based on assumed genitali was discrimination on the basis of sex.

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The department violated state and federal law when it refused to provide records.

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In medical-legal partnerships, health and law professionals team up to address health-harming legal needs.

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Two days after new Title IX rules were published, 15 states announced they're suing.

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Universal design views everyone’s needs for access as equally important, regardless of their limitations. 

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The new regulations from the Biden administration strengthen protections for sex discrimination, reversing Trump-era changes.

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LGBTQ+ foster kid support vanished; silence blankets the agency tasked with raising LGBTQ+ children.

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Categories like these are cited hundreds of thousands of times yearly to justify suspensions.

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Camp Twin Lakes provides experiences that are both medically and physically adaptive and supportive.

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Hundreds of people gathered at Lake Acworth to "Polar Plunge" into frigid waters.

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People with developmental disabilities are seven times more likely to encounter police.

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Autistic adults say controversial behavior interventions — designed to ‘extinguish’ autistic traits — are not acceptable.

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Researchers, therapists and autistic adults who themselves were ABA patients are pushing back.

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Can AI fill in for a shortage of human therapists?

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The suicide of Julie Hansen's two closest friends to inspired her to speak out.

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