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<img src='https://www.immigrantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/3000×2000-1-scaled.jpg' alt='Left: Ed Martin was one of the authors of the law now known as IDEA. Before the law, children with disabilities were often turned away from public schools. “They were invisible,” says Martin. Right: Maggie Heilman and her daughter, Brooklynn, 14, at their home in a Kansas City suburb. Brooklynn has Down syndrome and her own special education plan thanks to IDEA.’/>
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
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