IEP

Every child with disabilities gets an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) under federal law. Learn about IEP and how to ensure your child’s needs are met.

We have a problem. The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only created a storm of challenges in policy and practice for public education; it also has fomente

Every single thing we do is challenging. My kids are being forgotten. That’s Keri Akkawi, a Philadelphia mom of two boys with Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic

With the end of the pandemic in sight and some communities already reopening, it is time to understand what it will take for special education teachers to

I am a special education teacher with 17 years of experience in the classroom and a parent of two children with dyslexia. Recently, I learned that my daugh

Here at brightbeam, our North Star is “How Are The Children?” As parents look back over the last nine months of COVID-related school disruptions and closur

November 12th was our first day of school in-person since March of last year. On my drive to school, I was excited and grateful—thinking about my students

Ten years ago last month, a team of advocacy organizations filed the New Orleans special education lawsuit (P.B. v. White) in federal court. The class-acti

Recently I wrote that a residency hearing with two children, Kayla and Tasha, represented to me our deeply-embedded structural inequities in education that