Last Resort: Students in Rural Colorado Are Left Without Op

Part 2 in a 4-part series by COLab, Chalkbeat, Colorado Sun and KFF Health News focuses on hard hit rural Colorado. A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.

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