DeVos Wants to Roll Back Protections for Students of Color in Special Education
“Today, the Trump administration is proposing delaying a little-known regulation designed to address racial and ethnic inequities in special education. The rule requires states to identify school districts with ‘significant disproportionality’—in other words, schools that are inappropriately placing a large number of students of color in special education—and requires districts to address those disparities. It was scheduled to go into effect this year, but under the new rule it would be delayed until 2020 with the potential to be rescinded completely.”