TPM is proud to partner with Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. in an important federal lawsuit to remedy Delaware’s failure to provide special education and related services to incarcerated students with disabilities.
CLASI and public interest law firm Terris, Pravlik & Millian, LLP have filed a federal lawsuit against the Delaware Department of Education (“DDOE”) and its Adult and Prison Education Resources Workgroup (“APER”) for denying special education services to incarcerated students with disabilities, in violation of federal and state law. These young students are suffering irreparable harm as they languish without any education or receive only minimal, inadequate instruction. They fall further and further behind, making it less likely that they will ever earn a high school diploma and develop the skills they need to successfully transition back into their communities. “Delaware has been failing incarcerated special education students for decades,” says CLASI Disabilities Law Program Project Director Marissa Band. “Throughout my 16-year career at CLASI, we have encountered students subjected to educational deprivations by DDOE and its APER workgroup...It is disheartening that they have been told time and time again that this program is deficient, yet they do nothing.?It is time for DDOE and APER to make real, lasting changes.” To learn more, read our full press release here: https://lnkd.in/e5Hs8tVm