Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Keep Special Education and Civil Rights in the Department of Education
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ArcBroad Coalition Urges Congress to Keep Special Education and Civil Rights in the Department of Educationthearc.orgThe Department of Education calls its plan to move special education oversight to Health and Human Services and school civil rights enforcement to the Department of Justice a “partnership.” Disability, civil rights, education, parent, and educator organizations see something very different: core education and civil rights responsibilities being moved away from the agency Congress charged […]
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