Congress has approved significant fiscal year 2023 increases for Title I programs in high-poverty schools, special education and community schools, with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) pre-K-12 portion of $45 billion equaling a 5.6% increase over last year’s spending allocation. The legislation, signed by President Joe Biden on Dec.…
The Interagency Task Force on Sexual Violence in Education (Task Force), created by the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA 2022 Reauthorization), presented its first report to Congress today. As required by the VAWA 2022 Reauthorization, the report focuses on recruiting, retaining, and training the Department of…
The U.S. Department of Education (USDE) provides a resource for state and local education systems. Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health Needs, which provides information and resources to promote mental health and the social and emotional well-being of students.Included in the resource are seven key challenges…
Calling federal school meal policy on alternative milk an “issue of equity as it places an unfair burden squarely on minority children,” 31 Democrat members of Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to address the issue. Currently, children who are lactose intolerant must provide a doctor’s note…
The White House announced that it plans to work with Congress to expand access to free school meals for 9 million more children by 2032 as a first step toward creating a pathway to universal school meals. The plan was outlined among other steps in the White House’s National Strategy…
A Republican-led request for documents related to federal school reopening guidance was denied by the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. Accusations about special interests and political collusion over national school reopening guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic dominated a markup hearing held by the House Education and Labor Committee. Lawmakers…
On July 28, 2022, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee proposed a 13% increase for K-12 in fiscal year (FY) 2023. The proposed spending plan includes $20.1 billion for Title I grants and $15.3 billion for special education grants. Also included in the FY 2023 bill is $12 billion for Head…
The US Department of Education (USDE) shares information about resources that may be useful in supporting the needs of students with disabilities in particular, including tools for schools to assist students in addressing any disability-based behaviors that could otherwise interfere with their or other students' learning, or that could lead…
The U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a letter to school superintendents that it will administer a 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), marking the first time that OCR has conducted a CRDC, including all public school districts and their schools, two years in a row, for 2020-21…
On July, 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Q&A document highlighting procedures schools should take when responding to reports of sexual harassment, which follows policy based on 2020 amendments to the Title IX regulation. USDE also made public nearly 1,000 pages…
