Who Pays the Costs to Help Students With Disabilities?

Colleges and state agencies struggle to divide up their responsibilities

Three years after a federal law required them to work out their differences, public colleges and state vocational-rehabilitation agencies are still struggling to reach agreements on who should pay for costly services for students with disabilities.

The slow progress in resolving the disputes is delaying accommodations for some disabled students, and straining the finances of many college offices that

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