City and State | This month marks six years since our city shut down in the face of a growing pandemic and schools pivoted overnight to remote learning. It was a crucial and lifesaving decision. But for many students with disabilities, that pivot also meant losing access to the services and supports they rely on to learn – losses whose impacts are still being felt today.

At Advocates for Children of New York, each year we hear from and provide legal services to hundreds of families struggling to navigate the nation’s largest school system, in New York City.