Education Law
Mar. 15, 2023
Jewish disabled children denied equal access to special ed, suit says
“To be eligible as a placement for a student with a disability, the CDE [California Department of Education] must ‘certify’ an applicant school as a nonpublic school. To meet those certification requirements, California law requires the school to be non-sectarian,” Eric C. Rassbach of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty wrote.
Parents of Jewish children with disabilities filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing California of discriminating against religious schools and communities by excluding these schools from certain federal and state grants.
“It takes a special kind of chutzpah to deny Jewish kids with disabilities equal access to special education benefits,” Eric C. Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said...
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