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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 tells long stories with her whole body, shifting her shoulders to become each character, and she uses space the way a novelist…

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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 publishes how many deaf and hard of hearing children each of its school systems serves. Set that count beside what the systems publish, and beside the budget lines that are supposed to reach those children, and a different picture…

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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

*In 2026 Alaska wrote a duty to support its program for the deaf into statute and recorded the cost as zero. The district that runs the state’s only school for the deaf cut it in both budget cycles.* On February…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 12, 2026

New Jersey Still Advertises a Dorm It Closed

*The Governor’s budget says the Katzenbach School for the Deaf stopped housing students in fiscal 2026. The Department of Education’s pages for families still offer the program.* New Jersey has one state school for the deaf, and its own government…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 12, 2026

New York Never Said Who Can Interpret

*New York’s regulations define what an educational interpreter does and never say who may do it. A Capital Region BOCES posting shows what fills that silence.* New York regulates what an educational interpreter does and says nothing about who may…

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Deaf Education- NDEDI October 8, 2026

Who Will Publish the Numbers? Deaf Education Data After the Education Department’s Deal With HHS

*The agreement that moved special education’s daily work to HHS also covers Gallaudet, NTID and the Helen Keller National Center, and it never says who will keep publishing the numbers* Every state file in the National Deaf Education Data Index…

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