{"id":3808,"date":"2017-01-24T13:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:47:51","slug":"eds-guidance-on-students-wdisabilities-12417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"EDs Guidance on Students w\/Disabilities, 1\/24\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ED Releases Guidance on Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On December 28, the Department of Education\u2019s Office of Civil Rights released three new sets of guidance to assist the public in understanding how the Department interprets and enforces federal civil rights laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities.&nbsp; The three documents included a parent and educator resource guide, a Dear Colleague letter, and a question and answer document o the use of restraint and seclusion in public schools.&nbsp; The DCL and the Guide discuss the rights of students with disabilities in public charter schools.&nbsp; Specifically, the Guide makes clear the Section 504 rights of students with disabilities if a charter school is a virtual or online and states that it must be ensured \u201cthat the technology is accessible to students with disabilities. This means that the technology must be accessible to students with disabilities when their disabilities affect their use of the school\u2019s technology.\u201d&nbsp; For more information, visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-department-education-releases-guidance-civil-rights-students-disabilities\">https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/press-releases\/us-department-education-releases-guidance-civil-rights-students-disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3808\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ED Releases Guidance on Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities On December 28, the Department of Education\u2019s Office of Civil Rights released three new sets of guidance to assist the public in understanding how the Department interprets and enforces federal civil rights laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities.&nbsp; The three documents included a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,26,27,17,14,31,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}