Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that works on behalf of millions of students with dyslexia and other disorders.  Jacqueline Rodriguez, NCLD’s chief executive officer, recalled pressing McMahon on a question […] The post Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department appeared first on The Hechinger Report.