Special Education Office Head Resigns After Four Months as Education Dept. Shrinks

In the quiet machinery of federal governance, where policy shapes the daily lives of millions of children, the leader of the Education Department's special education office has stepped down after fewer than four months — a tenure cut short not by failure, but by the turbulence of an agency remaking itself. Kelly Rogers's departure is less a singular event than a symptom of a larger institutional unsettling, one that raises enduring questions about what happens to the most vulnerable when the systems built to protect them are themselves in motion. For the families and students who depend on the