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A $1.2 trillion deal to fund the federal government includes more money for special education and disability employment, but many other programs benefiting people with disabilities were not as lucky.

In most places across the country, families face a labyrinth of difficulties trying to navigate special education services — especially if they legally challenge their child’s educational placement at school.

By June, it will become school districts responsibility to prove they provided the correct services to a disabled child — not the other way around.

In most places across the country, families face a labyrinth of difficulties trying to navigate special education services — especially if they legally challenge their child’s educational placement at school.

Federal education officials need twice as much money to keep up with a flood of complaints alleging discrimination against students with disabilities and others in the nation's schools.

With new guidance, the U.S. Department of Education is pushing schools to ensure that all students with disabilities have the assistive technology they need and the supports to use it effectively.

The law that allows for these removals is meant to be limited to people with severe mental illness, but advocates say schools nationwide are using the practice in response to

Last year, children were handcuffed and sent to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation at least 117 times from schools in Wicomico County, on Marylands Eastern Shore. The

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SALISBURY, Md. — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed