A day after controversial new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, was sworn in the federal website focused on Special Education went down. However, officials said the issue should be no cause for alarm.
The U.S. Department of Education’s website about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) returned an error late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Agency officials said the issue is nothing more than a technical glitch that is being addressed. See article below for complete story on the IDEA website going dark.
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2017/02/08/federal-special-ed-website-dark/23295/
The IDEA website, http://idea.ed.gov/, is now being redirected to https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/osep-idea.html