Fairfax failed to appropriately develop and provide students with disabilities instruction and related services during online learning, the Education Department said.
The Education Department’s investigation of Fairfax involved reviews of school documents and data provided by the district, internal communications among top Fairfax officials and interviews with high-ranking school administrators.The department found that Fairfax provided mostly online-only education to most students with disabilities between March 2020, when schools shut down, and the close of the 2020-2021 school year.
The letter additionally finds that Fairfax did not fully track the services it was providing — or not providing — to students with disabilities and that the district “failed to adequately remedy denials of FAPE during remote learning.”The letter notes that top Fairfax officials understood as early as April 2020 that students with disabilities would need extra care, time and attention to help them recover from pandemic-era learning loss.
Instead, Fairfax opted to offer limited “recovery” services to students with disabilities — but only to students who were below the established baseline of academic performance before March 2020 school closures, the letter states. And, the letter says, “evidence strongly suggests that appropriate remedial services still remain unavailable, as a practical matter,” to thousands of children who need them.
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