{"id":1709,"date":"2023-01-30T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2023-01-30T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:40:18","slug":"special-education-eligibility-to-be-extended-beyond-age-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/30\/special-education-eligibility-to-be-extended-beyond-age-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education Eligibility to be Extended Beyond age 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your child will reach the age of 21 before June 30, 2021, he or she may still be eligible for special education beyond this school year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">S-3434 [insert link to bill] is on track to reach Governor Murphy\u2019s desk for signature in early June. This bill requires boards of education to provide special education and related services <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to certain students exceeding the age of eligibility for special education and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">related services. The bill recognizes that students with disabilities have had major <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interruptions in services caused by the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This extra year is not automatic, but if the IEP team (which includes the parents) determines that a student needs additional or compensatory special education and related services, including transition services, such services shall be provided. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your child will reach the age of 21 before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manesweinberg.highpointersmarketing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}