March 18 is the deadline for families of many special needs students to ask for make-up services, unless new legislation passes giving them an extension.
“We have a very tight timeframe that we’re trying to work within and it gets tighter and tighter every day,” said Peg Kinsell, public policy director of the SPAN Parent Advocacy Network, a nonprofit group based in Newark that helps train parents to advocate for their special needs children.
The New Jersey School Boards Association, the state Principals and Supervisors Association and the state Charter Schools Association are among the school groups that are in favor of extending the deadline. For example, if a student missed eight months of one-on-one speech therapy sessions at school while they were home remote learning during the pandemic, the child may be eligible for an additional eight months of speech sessions to make up for the lost time. Those make-up sessions could come during the school day, in addition to their current speech therapy, or during summer or after school in extra sessions paid for by their school districts.
That time lag makes it even more important to extend the two-year deadline so parents don’t have to jump to file cases in the Office of Administrative Law before they have even had a meeting with school officials, supporters said.
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