New York Times (9/16, Levine) reports that at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, “the Education Department stressed that all public schools that would be providing virtual or online education during the pandemic must continue to serve their students with disabilities.
But a survey released at the end of May by the advocacy group ParentsTogether, found that 40 percent of kids in special education hadn’t received any support at all, and only 20 percent received all the services they were entitled to.” Meanwhile, more than one third “were doing little to no remote learning, compared with 17 percent of their general education peers.