The Keene Sentinel

In Wisconsin, school districts last year rejected open-enrollment applications from students with disabilities at twice the rate of those from other students. In Nebraska, dozens of school districts exclusively denied applications to students with disabilities during the 2023-24 school year, while accepting others. And in Connecticut, a state investigation last year found that its career and technical high schools were disproportionately denying access to students with disabilities, in violation of state and federal law. Disability advocates in New Hampshire warn that a controversial universal open enrollment bill now under consideration would expose students with special education needs to the same pattern of exclusion here.