Lawsuit: CPS failed to provide required education to student with disabilities during pandemic
WCPO
and last updated 2021-03-02 13:04:02-05
CINCINNATI â The parent of a Walnut Hills High School student who has disabilities filed a lawsuit alleging that Cincinnati Public Schools failed to provide legally required education during the pandemic.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, names Cincinnati Public Schools, Superintendent Laura Mitchell, Walnut Hills High School, Principal John Chambers and CPS Board of Education members Melanie Bates, Eve Bolton, Pamela Bowers, Ben Lindy and Mike Moroski as defendants.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs, named B.Z. on behalf of the student R.Z., alleged the defendants failed to provide an appropriate public education for R.Z. by ignoring the effects of remote learning on R.Z. s Individualized Education Plan, refused to open R.Z. s high school and made no efforts for compensatory services.
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The Dec. 31 expiration of paid sick leave and family and medical leave policies that were part of federal COVID-19 relief laws has left school districts and their employees scrambling, with some districts voluntarily extending the benefits while others are requiring teachers and other workers to dip into their own accumulated leave if they are sick or need to quarantine.
“It’s a stressor,” said Anne Thomas-Abbott, a teacher and dean of an “upper house” health sciences program at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tenn. “If you have to quarantine for 10 days, that is a big chunk of your sick leave.”
and last updated 2021-02-17 21:32:07-05
CINCINNATI â For Carol Fiel of Oakley, watching her children suffer through shifts from in-person to remote and blended learning has been a painful experience. Five of her six children go to Cincinnati Public Schools.
âIt s been extraordinarily difficult for the older ones in particular because they didn t have much screen time when they were growing up,â Fiel said.
The full-time mother said some of her children even get physically sick from being online for so long. Her son, who attends Spencer High School, vomits and gets migraines from being online all day.
Her daughter, a seventh grader at Walnut Hills High School, used to be a model student with a strong personality. Now she is failing miserably; these days she takes medication and goes to therapy to manage her depression.
That simply is not acceptable : DeWine says CPS reneged on deal to resume in-person learning by March
CPS says no malintent behind decision to keep Walnut Hills virtual
WCPO
and last updated 2021-02-12 21:14:19-05
COLUMBUS, Ohio â Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he had a deal with school districts: The state would vaccinate K-12 teachers from COVID-19 if schools pledged to resume in-person learning in some form by March 1.
During an unexpected news conference Friday evening, DeWine said some districts are going back on the deal after teachers received their first doses, including Cincinnati Public Schools We learned this week that Walnut Hills High School will remain remote the entire year, DeWine said. That simply is not acceptable.
Cincinnati Public Schools parents feelings mixed about students returning to the classroom
CPS this week began phasing students back to a blend of in-person and remote learning after a weeks-long spike in coronavirus cases across Hamilton County and the state prompted a return to fully virtual classes.
and last updated 2021-02-02 17:21:48-05
CINCINNATI â The city s public school district this week began phasing students back to a blend of in-person and remote learning after a weeks-long spike in coronavirus cases across Hamilton County and the state prompted a return to fully virtual classes.
Krystan Krailler has two kids in Cincinnati Public Schools and told WCPO she is not happy.at all about the district s decision to return students to their classrooms part-time. Her son went back Tuesday.