Deaf, blind, disabled kids left with no school buses despite NYC reopening
(World News USA)

Hundreds of blind, deaf and disabled children attending independently run special education schools in New York City reopened for in-person classes have been denied bus transportation by the Department of Education, administrators and parents say. The New York State Education Department`s reopening policy mandates local school districts provide busing to kids outside the public school system, but since early September the city Office for Pupil Transportation (OPT) has been dragging its feet with little explanation, school administrators charge. The New York Institute for Special Education in the Bronx — which serves...