Ed Department Urged To Direct More COVID-19 Relief Funds To Students With Disabilities

29th March, 2021

2 April 2021, News, Newsletter, Special Ed

[Source: Disability Scoop]

The U.S. Department of Education is being asked to tell schools to direct significant funding from the recent COVID-19 relief law toward students with disabilities who have missed out on services they were entitled to during the pandemic.

A broad coalition of parents, teachers unions and disability advocates filed an 80-page “petition for guidance” this week with the Education Department. The move comes as school districts are set to see a huge influx of cash from the new law known as the American Rescue Plan.

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