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To be clear, no federal civil rights laws have changed. Students with disabilities are still legally entitled to a "free appropriate public education," a standard created by the half-century-old landmark law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA. Through that law, Congress remains required to pick up the tab for a portion of the average per-pupil cost of special education (spending billions of dollars each year).
The difference after the recent firings is that the people and systems in charge of doing those things have been upended.
