The state is warned that it may be illegally denying educations to disabled students by creating an unsafe environment for the vulnerable population.
of disabled students’ civil rights by Florida’s ban on school mask mandates, it informed the state on Friday.that had barred mask mandates. The suits, filed by parents of students with disabilities, argue that allowing maskless teachers and students at schools essentially denies a public education to their children because it’s too risky for the particularly vulnerable population to attend.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is “opening a directed investigation” into whether the statewide ban on mask requirements in schools “may be preventing school districts in the state from,” Suzanne Goldberg, the Education Department’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights, stated in a letter to Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran.
The probe will “focus on whether, in light of this policy, students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 are prevented from safely returning to in-person education, in violation of Federal law,” the letter noted.
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