special education

University teacher prep programs are changing to meet the expectations of more inclusive classrooms.

In a tense meeting Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted to approve the accreditation of more than 1,000 school sites across the state. But they spent a lot of that time lobbing thinly veiled political attacks at certain schools — and each other.

Nancy Novosad has spent the last 27 years surrounded by students in Yukon classrooms, but she’s not a teacher.She alternates between helping the teacher…

Special education teachers have become so scarce that districts face fierce competition to find and keep good candidates and sometimes leave open…

Joshua Myers once found his condition so overwhelming, he considered suicide. Now 29, he says he loves his life. What's more, his mom says he's taught her something special: "how to love."

More than a dozen names are inked onto the wooden paddle tucked behind Principal Josh Gwartney’s desk.Each name memorializes a child who was given a…

An Oklahoma Watch investigation finds that across the state, special education students are being paddled, suspended and expelled at higher rates than…

Although the tracking of discipline at schools has increased in recent years, many disciplinary actions are not recorded.Joy Turner, an attorney with the…

In Jenks Public Schools, campus police physically restrained and handcuffed a second-grade special education student.His crime? He ran to the playground…

Special education advocates in Oklahoma asked lawmakers to consider creating a statewide special task force to address special education and the way it is…