When people look back on this past year, I don’t think they’ll see the end of special education as we know it. More likely, they’ll see a beginning-- the moment families, teachers, and advocates woke up and said, “No more.”
Because it’s been a year of reckoning.
The quiet dismantling of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
The shifting of oversight and accountability to people who don’t understand (or don’t value) the protections that have held our system together for