From the report: "The COVID-19 school closures put the weaknesses in our special education system in stark relief. Overnight in March 2020, students with disabilities lost almost all the supports and services essential to their academic, physical, and emotional development.

Amid the turmoil last spring, CRPE, in partnership with the National Center on Special Education in Charter Schools, reached out to a group of charter schools that we knew from a prior study had strong programs for educating students with disabilities before COVID-19 to see how they were handling school closures.

This report includes in-depth case studies with five charter schools to understand how they responded to school closures and modified their approach to special education to meet the needs of students with disabilities in remote settings."