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- Students with disabilities were among those most severely affected by COVID-19’s disruption of schools and communities. When districts swiftly shuttered school buildings in the early days of the pandemic, they also struggled to provide accommodations and therapies remotely, causing some children to fall behind for lack of needed supports.
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Jul 24, 2023 · Between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, the number of students receiving special education services decreased by 1%, from 7.3 million to 7.2 million. This was the first year-over-year drop in special education enrollment since 2011-12.
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Jul 31, 2023 · In 2021-22, about 32 percent of all students in special education, or about 2.3 million students, had a specific learning disability.
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Aug 30, 2023 · “While special education enrollment bounced back to pre-pandemic levels in the 2021–22 school year, overall public school enrollment remained flat.” Other highlights from the data: The most common type of disability for preK-12 students involves “specific learning disabilities,” such as dyslexia.
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Ontario is in its second academic year of education disruption resulting from COVID-19 and COVID-19 related policy responses, affecting over two million elementary and secondary school students.1Education disruption has resulted from mass closure of all schools, partial closures in specific geographies, and closures of individual affected schools a...
The 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years had two different education policy responses. Provincewide school closures and the suspension of face-to-face instruction were instituted between March and June 2020. The system moved to emergency remote virtual instruction during this time. The 2020-21 school year had both province-wide and localized school clo...
It is critically important that all stakeholders understand and respond to the differentiated educational impacts of these disruptions, which will be an ongoing challenge. The social and economic costs of education disruption in Ontario are potentially devastating, and as evidence shows, can far outlive the immediate period of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Public Education’s (CRPE) first consensus panel in 2021 sounded a warning that the report pandemic could increase inequities in access to services, learning opportunities, and outcomes for students with disabilities.
Dec 6, 2022 · Among kids ages 6 and older, special education enrollment rose by 2.4% compared with the previous school year, according to federal data. The figures also showed a large drop in enrollment for younger, preschool-age students, many of whom were slow to return to formal schooling.
In 2022–23, the number of students ages 3–21 who received special education and/or related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was 7.5 million, or the equivalent of 15 percent of all public school students.
