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.

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.

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.

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.