Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

New York’s early intervention providers haven’t seen a substantive raise in three decades — and vulnerable young children are losing out.

The Hechinger Report features Sarah Carr in coverage of state-supported programs like Ohio's PROMISE and Vermont’s inclusion grants that aim to curb child care expulsions of children with disabilities...

President Donald Trump Sept. 3 said he is considering deploying the military in New Orleans as part of his nation-wide push targeting cities with large immigrant and Black populations. According to t...

After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they'd been given more options.

Illinois hospital staff must soon refer parents of premature infants to services that can prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy. The new law follows a Hechinger Report story about the issue...

State funded initiatives in Ohio and other parts of the country are working to strengthen child care teachers’ knowledge and confidence in working with young children with disabilities and development...

A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades.

Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maggi’s home in a suburban neighborhood here is a haven for local families. It’s a place where after just a few weeks in Maggi’s family-run child care program this spring, one pres...

Peggy Carr, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, at her Maryland home on July 1. Carr worked for the Education Department for more than 35 years before the Trump administration placed her on administrative leave on Feb. 24. Peggy Carr's last day on the job came so abruptly that she only had time to grab a few personal photos and her coat before a security officer escorted her out of her office and into a chilly February afternoon. She still doesn't know why she was summarily dismissed as commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), where she helped build…

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

For Learning Disability Week, Carrie Gillispie reminds us: Dog Man began in a hallway, drawn by a kid with ADHD looking to belong.

As the Trump administration issues executive orders related to DEI, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is considering dropping references to DEI in favor of “person-centered care.

Single parents will have to work to receive food benefits while some married parents will not.

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