The US Department of Education has announced it will begin monitoring the progress and achievements of students with special needs, with aims of boosting their academic success.
The Obama administration expressed on Tuesday that a vast majority of the 6.5 million students with disabilities in the United States are not receiving an adequate education.
States will now be held individually accountable for recording and demonstrating the progress of these students, in what the Education Secretary Arne Duncan describes as “a major shift”.
