Due to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, school districts throughout the nation are required to continue providing a free and accessible public education (or FAPE) to students with disabilities. While this requirement hasn’t gone away with the current pandemic, the way districts are able to enforce it certainly has been affected with recent school closures and remote/distance learning.
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