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New Jersey offering extra year of school to special education students because of COVID-19 pandemic
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill Wednesday that will give an extra year of special education services to students with disabilities who have experienced learning loss due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"We recognize the pandemic has been especially hard on the roughly 8,700 students this will impact and who have may not have the full set of transitional skills and job training that they need for adulthood," Murphy said at a COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday. "I am pleased to take this step to help secure a better future for them and their families." New Jersey will use funds from the American Rescue Plan to fund the extra year of special education.More Related News