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A rocky start to the school year leads a mom to pull her son out of the school after she claims he wasn't getting the proper special education resources.

The suit was filed over Providence’s failure to serve special education students. It’s unclear if the waitlist will be cleared by the start of the school year.

Lawsuit accuses Providence, RIDE of failing to provide `critical special ed services

Lawsuit accuses Providence, RIDE of failing to provide `critical' special ed services

Federal complaints allege one student was unlawfully restrained as many as 45 times.

When the plaintiff-school system sought judicial review of an administrative ruling that the defendant-parent and child’s claims were not time-barred, defendants’ underlying claims were a compulsory counterclaim. Consequently, defendants are not required to administratively exhaust their claims prior to judicial review. We affirm the district court’s ruling that defendants’ claims are not time-barred. We reverse

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Netti Vogel found that the Council of Elementary and Secondary Education (Council) and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) violated the rights of students who were English Language Learners (EL) by providing t

Costly independent evaluations and long waits have come to play an outsize role in the diagnosis and treatment disabilities, from ADHD to dyslexia.

Costly independent evaluations and long waits have come to play an outsize role in the diagnosis and treatment disabilities, from ADHD to dyslexia.

The ACLU of Rhode Island announced Thursday that the RI Department of Labor and Training (DLT) has agreed to "take numerous steps to prevent a repeat of last year’s debacle when thousands of residents had their unemployment insurance benefit payments unex