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Children With Autism Miss Out as School Districts Make Their Own Rules
Two New Jersey towns, Rutherford and Secaucus, are five miles apart. Students with autism in Rutherford have gotten far more in-person instruction.
Eric Alarcon, 3, with his father, Reuben, and mother, Estafania, at home in Secaucus, N.J., where opportunities for classroom instruction have been rare.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
April 28, 2021Updated 7:11 a.m. ET
Eric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, N.J., a 10-mile drive from Midtown Manhattan.
Children with autism miss out as school districts make their own rules
By Tracey Tully New York Times,Updated April 28, 2021, 10:16 a.m.
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An empty classroom at a closed school in Manhattan in July 2020.Ashley Gilbertson/NYT
Eric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, New Jersey, a 10-mile drive from midtown Manhattan.
Eric and his peers in a special-education class have had about 100 hours of in-person instruction in the first eight months of the school year.
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West New York schools stay virtual as North Hudson cases climb
Some schools switched instruction plans amid the second surge ×
Students at WNY s Memorial High School remain with virtual instruction.
As North Hudson is hit by a second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, school instruction plans have been shifting.
West New York
West New York will continue its virtual instruction plan, Superintendent of Schools Clara Brito Herrera said in a letter to the community on Dec. 7. According to Herrera, the school district aimed to phase in to hybrid instruction at some point in the year.
The district planned to reevaluate the learning plan at the end of the first marking period, but has now decided to remain virtual until the end of the second marking period in January of 2021. The decision was made in consultation with the West New York Health Department and Board of Education.