compensatory education

“Students with special needs are receiving all the appropriate services and the team is working to bring all records into compliance. For students who require it, compensatory education packages are also being provided,” said O’Neal.

Fairfax must then offer “compensatory education” to all these students to catch them up to where they should be, per the department.

Per Fairfax’s resolution agreement with the department, the district will designate an administrator to oversee the creation and implementation of a plan to provide compensatory education to students with disabilities.

And the letter says that, once pandemic closures eased, the Fairfax school system failed to provide “compensatory education” to students with disabilities whom the district failed to educate during the shutdowns.

“Other factors may also be in play, such as school desegregation, civil rights laws, early interventions like Head Start and other preschool programs, and compensatory education for low-income students.”