Media Coverage
Source: New York Times, CBS News
Media Coverage
Press Contacts: Erik Cummins, Matt Hyams, Taina Rosa, Olivia Thomas
10.11.24
A class action lawsuit filed by Pillsbury and the Legal Aid Society argues that the New York City public school system is failing to support students with disabilities who are chronically absent from school or who otherwise suffer from “school avoidance,” according to New York Times and CBS News.
Litigation partner Jeff Metzler, who filed the case along with Legal Aid, said that if children could not read because of disabilities, it would never be viewed as appropriate for schools to say, ‘Well, that’s too hard of a problem to figure out.’
Metzler added that the school system needed to establish a standard procedure for evaluating children’s issues and helping them return to school.
“It’s not a problem that can’t be solved,” he said.
Additionally, in an interview with CBS News, Metzler noted: “The Department of Ed does not have a program [or] policy to really address [the issue]…And it’s the parents, the families that don’t have the resources that are left to struggle on their own.”
Pillsbury senior associate Spencer Young and associate Sarah Rowan are also working on the lawsuit.
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