“Students with disabilities already face inordinate obstacles in getting the education they need to build their future,” said Shira Wakschlag, senior director of legal advocacy and general counsel at The Arc, one of the groups that’s backing Perez. “If the lower court decision is allowed to stand, it will cause further harm to students with disabilities who already experience segregation and discrimination in school and will burden parents by forcing them to jump through futile and unnecessary hoops in order to pursue non-IDEA civil rights claims in federal court.”
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