Greetings: For students, parents, and community members concerned by the headline,\u00a0\u201cNMPASI laments SCOTUS case on students with disabilities\u201d\u00a0(Saipan Tribune, Jan. 24) let me help set the record straight.<\/p>\n
There has been\u00a0no\u00a0high court decision that limits assistance the federal government provides\u2014and requires\u2014for students with disabilities.<\/p>\n
But there is a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court that could lower the federal standards for what public schools have to provide students with disabilities.<\/p>\n
That is why in November I filed an\u00a0amicus\u00a0brief with the Supreme Court, along with 117 other members and former members of Congress, speaking up for students\u00a0and their families.<\/p>\n
A lower court has ruled that federal law only requires a \u201cjust-above-trivial\u201d education for persons with disabilities. I believe that every person in our society should have the opportunity to reach his or her \u201cmaximum potential.\u201d<\/p>\n
And I believe it is the proper role of government to provide\u00a0the \u201cfull educational services\u201d\u00a0needed so that everyone\u2014of all abilities\u2014can\u00a0lead\u00a0independent, productive lives.<\/p>\n
To read the\u00a0amicus brief, please visit http:\/\/sablan.house.gov\/sites\/sablan.house.gov\/files\/documents\/15-827-amicus-petitioner-118-members-of-congress.pdf.<\/p>\n
Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/strong> Greetings: For students, parents, and community members concerned by the headline,\u00a0\u201cNMPASI laments SCOTUS case on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1502,121,15246,139],"class_list":["post-245183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-nmpasi","tag-northern-mariana-islands","tag-scotus","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDelegate, Northern Mariana Islands<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"