Advocates for people with disabilities have spent considerable time worrying about what a transfer of special education oversight away from the Education Department might look like in practice — and those concerns are now becoming harder to dismiss.
The Education Department recently held a private phone call in an attempt to ease the fears of disability rights advocates, but the effort did not appear to succeed in calming those concerns.
The prospect of shifting oversight of special education to another federal agency has alarmed many in the disability rights community, who view the Education Department as the appropriate home for programs that serve students with disabilities.
Despite the outreach effort, advocates came away from the call without the reassurance they were looking for, as the possibility of such a transition continues to grow more concrete.
