A year after taking heat when a key special education website went down, the U.S. Department of Education is preparing to deprecate the site in favor of an updated approach.
The Education Department said that visitors to the legacy site, idea.ed.gov, will be automatically redirected to a newer incarnation, sites.ed.gov/idea, beginning April 30.
The website was at the center of a firestorm early last year when the Education Department’s central spot for information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act went dark.