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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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Deaf Led AI Governance October 12, 2026

The Check Is Still Not There

Four days after NCG published “The Sign Said Something Else,” a second recording surfaced from the same airport,…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk October 12, 2026

The Exemption Is a Query: Who Actually Decides Minnesota’s Medicaid Work Requirement

On January 1, 2027, Minnesota’s Medical Assistance program begins requiring some adults to prove they work. The day…

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