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Connecticut Is Building a Special Education Teacher Pipeline. Can Your School Plug Into It?
A $4.7 million federal grant will pay for special education apprenticeships. It’s written around school districts, and no one has said yet whether charter schools, independent schools, or private special education programs can take part.
Strings Attached: The IRS’s New Private School Rule Meets the Supreme Court’s Preschool Case
A proposed IRS rule would treat race-based scholarships and admissions preferences as disqualifying for private school tax exemption, and the Supreme Court hears a religious preschool case the same day comments close. Here is what schools in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and D.C. should do now.
What 2026’s Education Laws Mean for Schools in Connecticut and New York
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.
Resurrecting the U.S. Department of Education?
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.
SCOTUS Rules 4-4 on Major Charter School Case
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.
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