Beth Hawkins

New research finds half of LGBTQ young people live in the 27 states where a swell of new laws restrict their in-school rights.

Amid Trump’s calls to ID and institutionalize people with psychiatric disabilities, HHS revives a second discredited theory of autism’s cause.

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina forced the reboot of New Orleans' schools, academics and college-going are up, but racial divides persist.

Former head of the Recovery School District talks reform, race and work yet undone in turning around New Orleans' schools.

25% of students with disabilities were proficient in reading in 2014. The district vowed to fix it. Now, it's 21% — and 18% are at grade level in math

Engineering the Future, Valley High School’s magnet program, has 6 career tracks that are a model for the district — and maybe for the entire state

In a decisive ruling, the high court confirms that the Americans with Disabilities Act holds schools to the same standards as other institutions.

Diana Diaz-Harrison's Arizona Autism Charter Schools restrained 41% of kids and put 20% in seclusion in 2020-21, 50% higher than the national average.

During contentious oral arguments, school district argues that families should have to prove school systems intended to deny children accommodations.

Diana Diaz-Harrison’s schools use a controversial intervention. She wants to use her new position to help others launch more like them.

Three families share what it took to win the right for special ed students to learn with nondisabled kids — and what’s at risk under Trump & RFK Jr.

100s of researchers, advocates call on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to abandon discredited beliefs about ‘cures,’ adhere to scientific standards.

Culling data from medical records, pharmacies, genetic tests, even smartwatches raises specter of lists Nazis used to kill hundreds of autistic kids.

Even though David Geier is not a physician, he gave autistic children a dangerous, unapproved drug and improperly prescribed puberty blockers.

Much of what the Trump administration envisions for special education is likely illegal, critics say. Here’s what can happen if it goes through anyway

After the state eliminated an illegal cap on the number of children with disabilities schools can serve, caseloads mushroomed. Funding did not.

Discipline reforms in wake of George Floyd's death had targeted disproportionate punishment of non-white kids and those with disabilities.

NOLA Public Schools’ last leader had no charter school experience, causing painful missteps. Now, some system leaders say it’s time for an insider.

As Trump edicts drive donations down, suicide hotlines ring off the hook and the future of in-school protections are in doubt

Jules Edwards of Anishinaabe Eagle Clan told lawmakers just setting standards for providers misses a larger issue: Growth of applied behavior analysis