The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, originally named the Education for All Handicapped Children Act when it was enacted in 1975, protects about 7.5 million students with disabilities ...

The Department of Education has long enforced the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which guarantees about 7.5 million children with disabilities in the U.S. a "free appropriate public ...

Medicaid supports more than $7.5 billion in school-based services, including certain services provided to children under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Funding helps pay for ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) into law by President Gerald Ford.

In a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, 23 Democratic senators are warning that dismantling the agency will “cause immense harm” to students with disabilities. President Donald Trump ...

Mannion’s first bill in Congress --- looks to push back on the trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and President Donald Trump depart after the president signed an executive order, on March 20, aimed at closing the Education Department. Jabin Botsford / The ...