United States Secretary of Education Betsy Devos has declined to recommend to Congress any additional waiver authority for the core tenets of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, most notably a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. Devos’s report acknowledges the challenges school districts face during the COVID-19 pandemic, but emphasizes that “[s]chools can, and must, provide education to all students, including children with disabilities,” and that ”[t]he needs and best interests of the individual student, not any system, should guide decisions and expenditures.”

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