Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of urgency. school districts used an average of 2,739 edtech tools during the 202324 school year. school districts used an average of 2,739 edtech tools during the 202324 school year.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

Department of Education found that only 20 states fully met IDEA requirements , while the rest required assistance or intervention, often due to systemic noncompliance ( Disability Scoop ). Let’s talk about how to bring SDI to your schools and give every student with an IEP the instruction they deserve.

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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) has just released updated guidance for AI , opening the door for schools to embrace artificial intelligence in ways that they feel could transform the educational landscape. So, what does this mean for your school? ” Schools are reminded of their legal responsibilities to ensure student safety.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. This can result in some students falling behind due to circumstances beyond their control.

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k12 Prospects

MAY 22, 2025

Selling to schools isnt just about having a great productits also about helping schools find the money to buy it. Understanding how schools access these funds can help vendors align their sales strategies with available funding opportunities. Create resources that help schools understand how to apply for relevant grants.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Programs that fund after-school services, ELL support, and Special Education staffing are now in limbo, leaving states like California and Connecticut facing massive shortfalls with no warning ( CT Insider , AP News ). Without them, schools may struggle to provide coaching, mentoring, or skill development for staff already stretched thin.

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The Applicious Teacher

MAY 25, 2025

So much so, that my school purchased mini whiteboards AND markers for us this school year. So, this past school year, I moved away from the whiteboards and replaced it with a notebook. This is the “multi-sensory” part of the program that makes it work so well for students with learning disabilities like Dyslexia.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Health courses were canceled.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2025

Several years after the release of ChatGPT, which raised ethical concerns for education, schools are still wrestling with how to adopt artificial intelligence. So are states stepping up for schools? It also ended the Office of Educational Technology, a key federal source of guidance for schools.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Calls for the injunction came from lawsuits filed by the Somerville and Easthampton schools districts in Massachusetts along with the American Federation of Teachers, other education groups, and 21 Democratic attorneys general. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2025

The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency standards for working with K-12 schools. There was also a settlement with the Pasco County School District in Florida that had allegedly discriminated against students with disabilities using a predictive policing program that accessed student records.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. Access to pediatric care can also be limited for families lin rural areas. There are families that ask, Are you closing? Kennedy Jr.s

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

Some schools laughed her out of the room, telling her that other families applied as soon as they became pregnant. Transitional kindergarten, a public early education program for 4-year-olds in California that provides a structured bridge between preschool and kindergarten , had been cut from her region for the 2025-2026 school year.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2024

Recent data shows students with disabilities miss substantially more school compared to their peers. Recent data shows students with disabilities miss substantially more school compared to their peers. This blueprint has three integral sections: 1.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Achieve and the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) released “ Diplomas that Matter: Ensuring Equity of Opportunity for Students with Disabilities ,” a new report analyzing the diplomas available to students with disabilities in each state for the graduating class of 2015. percent in 2006 only to 66.3

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

As schools make recorded lessons available to students online, they may not be making them accessible. Everyone has gotten used to the fact that ADA requires us to provide accessible classrooms, materials, and alternative texts,” says Burgstahler, “but they hadn’t completely thought everything through online.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2021

Schools and districts are poised to receive an influx of federal dollars that should support students with disabilities and make equity a priority, ensuring that outdated and ineffective special education systems are updated and held to high-quality standards, according to a new report from the Center for Learner Equity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Accessibility is a “critical key” when it comes to leveraging technology for all students — including those with disabilities, according to a new toolkit offering accessibility resources and tips for state and district education leaders.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data. Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What’s more, educators indicate a disparity when it comes to the likelihood of using Generative AI in the classroom, with district and school leaders perceived as less likely to embrace new AI tools when compared to educators and students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Educational disparities can exacerbate existing inequalities, and it’s essential that school leaders and teachers address these issues to promote a level playing field. Here are five key strategies to ensure equity of access: 1. Digital resources can play a significant role in expanding the accessibility of diverse materials.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

Sometimes these aspiring leaders are befuddled to learn about rules they have supposedly been working under for several school years. Providing access to the materials of government, policy documents, mission statements, DEI statements, etc. The materials must be accessible to the public and other stakeholders. is not enough.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2024

Like Jacob, many students with disabilities are forced to work extra, advocates argue. They have to learn just like other students, but they can also have to deal with assignments they can’t access and other digital hurdles. Department of Justice published its final rule for web and mobile accessibility. In April, the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2021

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some parents of children enrolled in public schools have made, or are considering making, moves to alternative modes of education. Much of this stems from the disruption of the pandemic and the flexibility that private schools had to bring students back to the classroom. In March 2021, the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Its also an increasingly important aspect as studies, like one from the International Journal of Developmental Disabilities , show that inadequate support negatively impacts students mental health, physical health, and overall quality of life. This approach fosters environments where all students can learn and grow together.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

CLEVELAND – June 7, 2022 – Digital book access for reading and listening for K-12 students has reached a milestone. Students using the free Sora student reading app have now accessed more than 100 million books from their school’s digital collections since Sora launched in 2018.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

rated, ensuring Capstone Interactive is accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities. Educators can also easily share a direct link to an eBook, allowing students access with a single click. With multi-user, simultaneous access, Capstone Interactive can be used by every student in a school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2024

After my second surgery, I took a semester off from school to recover and to adjust to my new normal. I could no longer drive so my mom or dad needed to get me to school. Today, I’m a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Rowan University, with a focus on students with disabilities. I was devastated.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Access to diverse books positively impacts children as readers and as people. percent of total books), a person with a disability (3.4 Students need access to texts that reflect experiences diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, and language. percent of total books), Asian/Asian American (8.7 percent of total books), Latinx (5.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

CoSN and CAST last released a comprehensive report entitled “ AI and Accessibility in Education.” The AI and Accessibility in Education report emphasizes that the integration of AI in education holds significant promise for enhancing accessibility and support for all students,” said Keith Krueger, CEO, CoSN. “By

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The IDEA act also guarantees that students with disabilities have the right to engage in the Least Restrictive Learning Environment (LRE) that best meets their individual needs. The LRE ensures that students under IDEA are offered equitable access to education alongside their non-disabled peers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2023

About a month ago, a colleague forwarded me a newsletter from the school she works with. It was a normal-looking school newsletter: a three-page PDF with information about upcoming events, decorated with colorful clip art of flowers. A document like that can be completely unreadable for a parent or guardian with a disability.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million students received special education services as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Even before the pandemic hit, there were signs that serious trouble was brewing for students with disabilities. In early 2020, 7.3

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lunch hours are spent hunched over smartphones, and after-school time means less sports and more Snapchat. At Spokane Public Schools (SPS), educators and administrators are reversing the side effects of social media by re-connecting with students through school-based extracurricular activities. A lot of them wanted an art club.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Language barriers make it difficult for parents with limited English proficiency (LEP) to advocate for their children, talk to educators about their child’s progress, and gain access to information about special education services, gifted and talented programs, discipline policies, parent handbooks, and more.

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