“There’s been a pretty broad pronouncement that this administration is thinking about moving special education anyway.”
Even if protections are written into law, that doesn’t guarantee they’ll be upheld under current conditions. Our Interim Executive Director, @Jennifer Coco, warns that shifting special education oversight from the Department of Education to Health and Human Services could reverse decades of progress. We fear this change could lead to harmful assumptions about disabled students’ ability to learn, increasing segregation and undermining inclusive education.
Read the full piece in @The74Media by @Beth Hawkins here: https://www.the74million.org/article/isolation-neglect-disability-advocates-fear-return-to-a-bleak-past-under-hhs/
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