The state of Oregon has denied hundreds of children with disabilities the opportunity to attend the full day of school they are entitled to by federal law.
That’s the claim of a federal class-action lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in the Oregon U.S. District Court.
Officials filed the lawsuit on the first day of the 2019 Legislative session, with Governor Kate Brown, the Oregon Department of Education and its director Colt Gill named as defendants in the complaint.
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