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USDOJ: Voucher Schools Discriminate Against Special Needs Kids
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | May 3, 2013
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction must do more to ensure students with disabilities are fairly served by private voucher schools, and the agency must ramp up its oversight of voucher schools and their practices of enrolling and serving such children, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
The April 9 letter distributed to the public Thursday is seen as vindication for disability rights advocates who have long claimed that the private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program have denied enrollment to children with some special needs, or forced them out of the school as a result of their disability or behavior stemming from it.
“As an agency, we think this letter confirms what we have heard from parents for years: that the choice schools have discriminated against us,” said Lisa Pugh, policy director for Disability Rights Wisconsin.
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