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Settlement Nearing in 25-Year-Old Case on Educating Students With Disabilities

By The Associated Press — November 27, 2018 1 min read
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Ohio’s education department and an advocacy group have a proposed agreement to a 25-year-old lawsuit about the education of students with disabilities.

More than 250,000 such students are expected to benefit from the agreement aimed at improving educational support for them and raising academic achievement. The proposal still must be approved in federal court.

Under the measure, the state would craft a plan to boost the students’ test scores and other performance measures and provide more support. It also targets school districts with high rates of segregating children with disabilities by requiring better inclusion of those students in regular classrooms in 11 of Ohio’s large, urban districts.

The case from Disability Rights Ohio had been long set aside while another school-funding case was resolved.

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A version of this article appeared in the November 28, 2018 edition of Education Week as Settlement Nearing in 25-Year-Old Case on Educating Students With Disabilities

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