A federal judge on Wednesday ordered New York City to address failures to provide crucial services to public school students with disabilities, a major step that followed two decades of litigation and criticism from families in the nations largest school system.
The order could trigger the most expansive effort in recent years to address one major source of delays for families as they navigate the citys vast special education system.
Thousands of families have won disputes over the districts failures to accommodate their children. But even after an arbiter finds that the city owes a family services or payments, many still do not receive them for months.
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