What happens when California students in special education return to the classroom?
For students with disabilities, the pandemic has been a landscape of extremes. Some have thrived with distance learning and want to continue in the fall, while many have languished without the in-person support of therapists and teachers and have lost ground academically, socially and emotionally. But staffing shortages, a lack of data and a backlog of evaluations mean it could be months before schools get a clear picture of students’ needs. “Students with disabilities are not a monolith. Each student is an individual. And right now, we don’t know exactly what the impact has been,” sa...
Source: edsource.org