Maine's Department of Health and Human Services has contracted with a Saco-based behavioral health agency to build the state's first adolescent residential treatment program, a development advocates ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has sued the state of Maine for unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities ...

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after ...

Racial discrimination cases and access to educational services are likely in jeopardy as Trump moves to eliminate the 45-year ...

President Donald Trump said he will move special education oversight to Health and Human Services, but the plan is short on specifics and it's unclear whether he has the authority to do so.

During the same time period, more than 480 children were treated in residential treatment facilities, staying for an average of nine to 12 months, with 27 percent staying for over a year.

State legislators have introduced measures that would prohibit schools from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

South Dakota senators voted 27-6 Monday afternoon to pass a bill segregating restrooms in public schools and state-owned facilities such as the Capitol, university buildings and prisons by sex ...

Among the allegations were that the state failed to invest in community-based providers and that it has been “unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals ...