Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country, but it has every other state beat by one measure: A higher percentage of its students are in special education than anywhere else.

Despite several recent threats to cut funding for special education, federal spending on students with disabilities will increase this year.

Federal education officials are doling out over $19 million across the country in an effort to better prepare teachers to work with students who have disabilities.

U.S. Department of Education officials appear to be making it easier for school districts to limit spending on special education.

Some New York City kindergartners with disabilities are lucking out. They’ll head to private schools this fall at taxpayer expense because there’s simply no room for them in public schools.

There may be two different bills on the table designed to fully fund special education when Congress returns this fall if one lawmaker follows through on plans announced this week.

Facing a whopping $36 million reduction in federal special education funds as punishment for spending too little, South Carolina is getting a reprieve. The cut will be delayed for one year.

A group of U.S. senators wants the federal government to fully fund special education for the first time ever and they’re proposing that higher cigarette taxes are the way to pay for it.

South Carolina officials cut millions from special education without federal approval. Now, they must restore the money or risk losing significant funding from Washington.

Facing declining local property tax rolls, schools are struggling to find cash, a situation that may pit special education against general education interests in some areas.

Special education programs across the country will be cut by $44 million this year as compared to last, but things could have been much worse, experts say.

Students are likely to pay the price at a school for those with disabilities after auditors found more than $800,000 misused, much of it going to the school head’s million-dollar pay package.

Federal education officials say they will allow two states to reduce spending on special education, but denied a similar request from a third state, in letters sent last week.

Special educators say budget cuts are forcing larger class sizes, layoffs and other changes that compromise students with disabilities, according to a first-ever national survey.

A California congresswoman says she plans to introduce legislation designed to address the disproportionately high rate of bullying that students with disabilities face.