News in Brief: A Washington Roundup
The Department of Education has teamed up with the University of Maryland to create a national center to study the needs of disabled students in the juvenile-justice system.
The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice will provide research, technical assistance, and training to help educators and others better understand how to prevent youth crimes and rehabilitate students with disabilities.
The Education Department and the Department of Justice are financing the project jointly, at a cost of $500,000 a year for five years. The center was first funded last October, but federal officials waited to announce the initiative until the...
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