Excerpt from: MLive (click for full article)
Michigan schools understand their legal obligation to provide students with disabilities equal opportunities to participate in sports, according to Jack Roberts, Michigan High School Athletic Association executive director.
That understanding began before the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a letter in January affirming the decades-old law.
“I think schools understood before this letter very well that they were obligated under the law to make reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities...so far as they could without altering the fundamental nature of the sporting activity,” Roberts said. “That’s what the law has required and that’s what schools have been doing very well.”
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