Vermont students now can more easily qualify for special education services. A rule change went into effect July 1 that opens eligibility for students presenting deficits in functional skills.

Who qualifies? Special education is designed to ensure students with disabilities can have their educational needs met, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

This severe lack of special education staff has made it difficult to staff specialized classrooms, to manage Open Choice ...

In 2019, 43 states reported a shortage in special ed teachers. Now, it's 48. A lot of teachers left because of the pandemic. That made it tougher on teachers who remained.

Education Jan 27. What’s driving a special education teacher shortage and how schools are responding. By John Yang, Claire Mufson, Lana Green ...

More than 7.5 million American students have disabilities that qualify them for individual education plans. But teachers trained in this critical area are in short supply. Special education ...

New complaints follow years of a worsening shortage of special education teachers that's leaving schools without qualified faculty and students without properly provided services.

Charlie Crist's running mate Karla Hernández-Mats suggests her background as a special education teacher makes her qualified to be Florida's lieutenant governor to handle "dysfunction." ...

Takeaways There’s a steady increase in special education students in Kansas public schools. Districts are struggling to find qualified special education teachers. Emporia State University is seeing ...

Nationwide, the number of students who qualify for special education services has swelled from 3.7 million, or 8.3 percent of the overall student population, in 1976—the year after Ford signed ...

The Education Freedom Scholarship program opened applications on May 15 for families to secure vouchers for the 2025-26 school year. In a May 13 news release from the Tennessee Department of ...

However, students receiving special education services statewide account for nearly 15% — more than 82,000 children in the 2023-24 school year. For some districts, that percentage is even higher.