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Washington state students with disabilities are eligible to receive services from public schools until they turn 22, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
Federal officials say students with disabilities from Washington State can continue to receive help from public schools.
Typically, students graduate when they are 17 or 18, but state laws extend public school educational services beyond that for disabled students.
The state’s failure to monitor private special education schools forces parents to take extraordinary and sometimes expensive measures to get their kids into the best programs— or keep them out of the worst.
Some parents with kids in crisis in Washington are making a heart wrenching decision. They’re sending their children to out-of-state therapeutic boarding schools. And taxpayers are picking up the tab. While these are outlier cases, they highlight ongoing gaps in in-state services — gaps that were laid bare during the COVID pandemic.