The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that requires local school districts and charter schools (schools) to provide a free and appropriate public education (FAPE ...

Many of the country’s roughly 7 million students with disabilities missed out on services and instruction when schools went remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and during the stops and starts ...

As attorneys representing families and students with disabilities, we are often asked about the differences between compensatory education and Extended School Year (“ESY”) services for ...

The EEOA gives courts broad discretion in crafting remedies for violations of ELLs' rights, and that discretion includes the ability to award compensatory education—a powerful tool for remedying ...

In 1989, President Ronald Reagan proposed $115 million for the magnet-school-assistance program—and $4.6 billion for the Title I “compensatory education” program, which offers extra money to ...

"Recovery services," however, sounds like another, more established special education phrase: compensatory education, meant to address when a school has failed to provide a student special ...

Since schools closed in March, Deborah Tomai has sat alongside her son, a 9-year-old with Down syndrome, as he made gains in class, developed as a reader, and grasped concepts, such as regrouping ...

About a year ago, the Duluth School Board made changes to compensatory education funding. Now every school has some money to improve itself. Each school generates a certain amount of compensatory ...

The Duluth School Board approved a one-year freeze on compensatory education funding allocation Tuesday night, as well as a balanced budget. The resolution to freeze the compensatory education ...

With the return to in-person learning, some parents of students with disabilities are trying to recoup that lost learning, by asking for what’s known as “compensatory education.” Those ...