Federal data shows real gains in including students with disabilities, even as the oversight behind that progress is being dismantled. New Connecticut numbers show who is still being left out of college. Both reports ask the same question: does the system deliver equal opportunity, or reproduce the gaps it inherits?

Connecticut's 2025 session reshaped special-education funding and rules, held ECS harmless for overfunded towns, and touched charters; a shorter 2026 session added new charters and paraeducator provisions. New York moved mostly through budget and regulation. Here's what school leaders should track.

The EEOC rescinded its prior Strategic Enforcement Plan on June 4 and replaced it with a new National Enforcement Plan for FY 2025–2029. The new plan shifts enforcement emphasis toward intentional discrimination and DEI-related employment practices, deprioritizes disparate impact, and ties enforcement discretion expressly to current executive branch policy.

In Attorney General v. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, the Massachusetts SJC held that Commonwealth charter schools are public agencies subject to the Public Records Law. We compare the rule with Connecticut, New York, and the District of Columbia.

Treasury has announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990 to require clearer reporting on government grants, contracts, and fiscal sponsorship. Nothing is final yet, and proposed regulations with a public comment period will come first.

Three IRS developments — Form 8976's move to Pay.gov, a possible precedent revisiting regarding race-based selection criteria, and looming Johnson Amendment guidance — are reshaping the ground under paired (c)(3)/(c)(4) structures before the June 30 window closes on IRS/Treasury priority program guidance.

Primary season is opening across NY, DC, MA, and CT, and your charity is being asked to host forums, rent space, and invite electeds to speak. Here is what is permitted, what is prohibited, and the small adjustments that keep routine activity clean.

DOJ has proposed exempting federal prosecutors from state professional-conduct rules in any state where they practice, which would make federal attorneys uniquely unaccountable to the same ethical regime that governs every other lawyer in the jurisdiction.

As DOGE proposes deep cuts to federal grant programs that fund a substantial share of nonprofit operations, the question isn't only what gets cut, but whether the public-private partnership model that built the modern sector survives the next budget cycle intact.

A Massachusetts federal court ordered the Trump administration to reinstate hundreds of Department of Education employees, reviving the broader constitutional question of whether the executive branch can effectively eliminate a Cabinet-level agency that Congress created.

When the Supreme Court splits 4-4, the lower court's ruling stands but sets no national precedent, leaving charter school authorizers, advocates, and litigants nationwide without the clear constitutional answer they came to the Court to find.