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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 25, 2026

The Count That Disappeared: What Arkansas Stopped Publishing When It Merged Its School for the Deaf

NCG Insights. Drawn from the National Deaf Education Data Index, state file 04 (Arkansas), compiled 15 August 2026.…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 24, 2026

Minnesota Counts Its Deaf Children. It Does Not Say Where They Are.

Picture a mother in a small district in west central Minnesota. Her son failed his newborn hearing screen,…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 16, 2026

Kentucky’s Deaf School Reaches 152 Districts. Three of Them Say So.

A search that comes back empty Erin Calloway found out her daughter was deaf on a Tuesday in…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 16, 2026

What the Contract Never Required: Buying an AI IEP Platform

The Demonstration Eighteen months before Nora’s annual review, five people sat in a conference room at the district…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 15, 2026

Drafted by AI, Signed by a Human

Nora Nora is nine, and she is Deaf, and in American Sign Language she is a talker. She…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 15, 2026

Alabama Counts Its Deaf Children by District. Most of Those Districts Say Nothing About Them.

Alabama does something most states do not. Every year its State Department of Education publishes the special education…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 13, 2026

A Right Without a Dollar: Alaska’s Deaf Education Law and the School It Left to a District Budget

On February 2, 2026 the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development filed a fiscal note on the…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 12, 2026

New Jersey Still Advertises a Dorm It Closed

New Jersey has one state school for the deaf, and its own government describes it two ways. The…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 12, 2026

New York Never Said Who Can Interpret

New York regulates what an educational interpreter does and says nothing about who may do it. Section 200.1(nnn)…

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