Advocates of students with special needs are calling the legislation 'shameful' and saying it is exploiting a crisis to potentially roll back necessary protections.
Advocates of students with special needs are calling the legislation"shameful" and saying it is exploiting a crisis to potentially roll back necessary protections.Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at a Senate subcommittee hearing.’ proposed “Phase 3” coronavirus stimulus package, saying that it may eventuallytheir legal obligation to educate students with disabilities.
The proposal says that within 30 days of its enactment, DeVos should prepare a report for Senate committees “ protections for vulnerable groups. As of the 2017-2018 school year, 7 million students ― or 14% of all children ages 3 to 21 ― received special education services under IDEA, according to theIt’s people using the coronavirus crisis basically to get what they want anyway in terms of weakening civil rights protections for vulnerable children. It’s just sad,” said Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance at the National Center for Youth Law.
The current version “suggests that children’s rights are a hindrance to their own education, and that is nonsensical,” said King. “This still continues to be a distraction from their fundamental responsibility to ensure the health, nutritional and educational needs of all children are met during this national crisis.”
At least 95,000 public and private schools have shut down in an effort to combat coronavirus, affecting about 44 million students, according to. Most schools have continued providing virtual academics, but some have struggled to provide education for students with special needs. Previous guidance from the U.S. Department of Education said that schools are not required to provide IDEA services if they close to stop the spread of COVID-19 and do not provide any services to other students.
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