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Children with disabilities are entitled to a public education but when schools dont fulfill that obligation, its often left to parents to fight for their rights under federal law.

Many experts say it is harmful to isolate children with disabilities. Nationally, however, public districts paid for about 166,000 students with disabilities to attend segregated schools.

Special-education teachers in participating Porter County districts are employed by and paid via PCES. After Tuesdays decision, districts will begin hiring their own special-education teachers and hosting more special-education programming

Schools across the country struggle to hire enough special education teachers and paraprofessionals. The shortage is so severe at one Indiana school that parents and educators worry its unsafe.