A federal judge is ordering the city Department of Education to overhaul the way it treats parents of children with disabilities.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.A federal judge ordered the city’s Department of Education Wednesday to overhaul the way it responds to families seeking services for students with disabilities – the latest development in a decades-old lawsuit over entrenched dysfunction in city special education.
The situation has only worsened since the city settled the case in 2007. By law, students with disabilities who are awarded services or reimbursement are generally supposed to get them within 35 days. “To then wait months or years without ordered services or reimbursements adds insult to injury for students and their families, and in our experience can lead to further harm for the families,” said Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children of New York, which represented the plaintiffs in the class action.
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