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Mask requirements are shutting special-needs students out of in-person instruction

June 16, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Parents of students with disabilities and special needs in North Carolina say mandatory masking in schools is blocking their children’s learning recovery heading into much-needed summer-learning programs established by the legislature. Jennifer Gupton, […]

Schools opening remotely are leaving special needs behind

August 5, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — With Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening announcement allowing districts to reopen under Plan C, full remote learning, parents who have children with special needs say they are being left behind. Two families agreed […]