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We need to go back to looking at how we can improve education for all students,

stop this purge of the Department of Education, rehire the employees, and resume the

funding that is so critical for all students.

A George W. Bush-era proponent of No Child Left Behind says Trump's cuts to education may leave kids

behind, especially those with disabilities.

Music may leave kids behind, especially those with disabilities. It's Friday, March 28th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR. I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, three conversations about parenting, including a look at families dealing with disability and how cuts the government programs are hitting special education.

Many young children with disabilities already have to wait months for therapy.

We called early intervention and was like, hey, we were looking at the wait time for therapists, and we were almost a year out.

Also, the author of a new book called Poems of Parenting tries to capture what it's really like to be a new mom.

Producer Ashley Locke put all these conversations together today as part of our ongoing coverage of early childhood.

You can find a lot more of that at hereandnow.org, by the way.

And Ashley had some thoughts on how today's stories tie together.

They are all about mothers who went through something really hard

and had to get creative to find a solution. And then they didn't just find a solution. They are now

using their voices to help other people avoid the same struggles that they went through. To me,

that's very inspiring. Being a parent sometimes can feel

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