We Didn't Get Here Overnight, Special Education Has Been Broken for Decades

There's a lot of noise, with plenty of people writing and talking about the “gutting” of U.S. Department of Education. Instead of adding to the noise, let's look at the silence.

Instead of writing, I’ve spent the last few days swallowing bile, fielding texts/calls from parents, and trying to wrap my head around the moral outrage on display—and my own feelings about the state of U.S. Department of Education (USDOE). Every time I read or hear the word gutted (as in, Department of Education has been gutted), the bile starts to ris…