Your Student’s Right to Compensatory Education

If your student with a disability has been denied needed educational services required by law, your student is entitled to makeup educational services, or compensatory education.

Compensatory education is an equitable remedy, which means it is based on the idea of fairness. Compensatory education is meant to put a student in the same position they would be in if the school had provided appropriate special education and supports in the first place. Because of that, compensatory education is highly individualized and broadly flexible to the needs of your student.

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