U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is calling on the nation’s public schools to work with parents to better serve students with special needs.

A disability makes writing difficult for 9-year-old Natalie Quintana, but a custom-designed gripping tool developed by a group of middle schoolers is making a big difference.

Nervous about how other students would receive her son with autism, one mom took to Facebook and found a heartening response.

Despite broad concern that minorities are overrepresented in special education, new research suggests that the opposite may in fact be the case.

Struggling to find special education teachers, one state is turning to paraeducators to help fill the void.

Civil rights lawsuits against schools are on track to double compared to four years ago thanks in large part to disability-related claims, according to a new review of federal court filings.

The nation’s largest school district is being accused of failing to provide speech therapy, occupational therapy and other legally-mandated services to students with disabilities.

Amid the national noise about potential cuts to Medicaid, some school administrators are trying to bring attention to one arguably lesser-known group that would be affected: their students.

A school district in one of the nation’s largest cities is being accused of downplaying or ignoring pervasive bullying of students in special education.

New research suggests that local factors may play the biggest role in determining how likely students with disabilities are to experience restraint and seclusion at school.