Education Across the States
The go to place for any issue having to do with education across the nation
Most resource pages are organized by whoever published them. This one is organized by the job you do — district leadership, school administration, teaching, or related services — so the law, the data, and the explainers for your role are in one place.
We link to the best resources we know of, including ones that aren't ours. Our episodes and investigations sit side by side with federal agencies and the professional organizations for each role, each labeled so you can tell whose work it is. If the best answer lives somewhere else, this page points there.
District Leadership · School Admin · Teachers · Related Service Providers
For superintendents, district administrators, and school boards — the roles that set policy, budgets, and legal exposure for everyone else. Start with the law itself, the national data, and the reporting that shows how the same questions are playing out across the country.
Education Across the States
Every state's education code and special education regulations, linked to the official text — the starting point for any policy question.
Education Across the States
Our briefing on the federal homelessness education law — who qualifies, the rights every district owes (immediate enrollment, school of origin, transportation), where districts get it wrong, and the policy-and-practice build for full compliance.
Education Across the States
A public comparison of every district's reported restraint and seclusion rates, with per-district disability disparities, built from federal civil rights data.
Education Across the States
What the newest federal count shows about the growth of IEPs and 504 plans — and what that growth means for staffing, budgets, and planning.
Education Across the States
Our national public-records reporting: what we request from agencies and districts, what they produce, and what the documents show.
Education Across the States
State special education regulations walked through rule by rule, in plain English — new states added every week, each grounded in the official text.
Education Across the States
Each state's daily briefings, latest episodes, education department, and board-watch issues, gathered on one page per state.
Education Commission of the States
50-state policy research and comparisons on nearly every education question a board or cabinet takes up.
AASA
The national association for superintendents: advocacy, research, and leadership development.
National School Boards Association
Resources and advocacy for school boards, including legal and governance guidance.
Council of Chief State School Officers
The state chiefs' association: standards, accountability, and state policy collaboration.
U.S. GAO
The federal watchdog's education reports: independent audits of programs, spending, and outcomes.
For principals and building administrators. The work lands at the building level — discipline and reporting duties, evaluation timelines, staff safety, and what the law requires before the end of the school day.
Education Across the States
Our investigation into the school safety gap: why most public school employees work without a federal safety regulator, and what state law requires instead.
Education Across the States
Washington's restraint and isolation law in its first full school year: what changed inside buildings, and what the numbers show.
Education Across the States
Seclusion and restraint in Virginia Beach, told through the state's own numbers — and the room that closed because of them.
Education Across the States
Safety, cameras, and the special education staffing crisis: the building-level decisions behind a national shortage.
Education Across the States
The assessments behind evaluation timelines, explained instrument by instrument — the WISC-V, the WIAT-IV, and more.
Education Across the States
Look up any district's reported restraint and seclusion rates, including your own building's district, and see how they compare nationally.
NAESP
Practice, policy, and professional learning for elementary and middle school building leaders.
NASSP
Leadership resources, advocacy, and professional learning for middle and high school administrators.
ASCD
Instructional leadership and whole-child resources used by administrators and teacher leaders nationwide.
U.S. Department of Education
The federal civil rights office for schools: complaint processes, guidance, and the civil rights data collection districts report into.
For general education and special education teachers. The law of the classroom in plain English — what IDEA and Section 504 actually require, how evaluations turn into IEPs, and how to read the scores that drive instruction.
Education Across the States
The federal special education law walked through one section at a time — starting with §1400, the findings and purposes Congress wrote into the statute.
Education Across the States
Section 504 plans have quietly quadrupled. What the law requires, what districts actually do, and what teachers need to know.
Education Across the States
What a good advocate does, what to look for before engaging one, and how advocacy changes an IEP meeting.
Education Across the States
What the WIAT-IV measures, how to read its results, and how those results become IEP goals — in three parts.
Education Across the States
The WISC-V's indexes and subtests explained, so a score report reads like a teaching plan instead of a riddle.
Education Across the States
What each placement setting on the continuum really means in a classroom day, using New Hampshire's rules as the working example.
U.S. Department of Education · OSEP
The federal government's own IDEA site: the statute, the regulations, guidance, and OSEP resources in one place.
Wrightslaw
The long-standing reference for special education law and advocacy, written for the people who sit at IEP tables.
Council for Exceptional Children
The professional home of special educators: standards, journals, and classroom practice resources.
Understood
Plain-language explainers on learning and thinking differences, built for families and the teachers who work with them.
Center on PBIS
The federally funded center for positive behavioral interventions and supports — the framework behind schoolwide behavior systems.