Protections, funding for students with disabilities under threat, experts say

  • Amy Matthews is a psychologist and the director of the START (StatewideAutismResources and Training) Project at GrandValleyStateUniversity. GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
    Amy Matthews is a psychologist and the director of the START (StatewideAutismResources and Training) Project at GrandValleyStateUniversity. GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY

    LANSING

    Michigan education experts say that the rights and protections for students with disabilities are under threat after President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

    “Eliminating the department would be robbing these kids of their future,” said Thomas Morgan, the press secretary for the Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest union of school…