A suit filed against the state by the U.S. attorney in Atlanta and the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department alleges that students with behavioral disabilities are being systematically segregated from other students and are given no access to elective classes, school facilities or extracurricular activities such as athletics or school clubs.
Thousands of students enrolled in the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support Program are “entirely segregated” from other students, often in “old, poorly maintained buildings, some of which formerly served as schools for black students under Jim Crow laws,” in what federal prosecutors claim is a practice by the state Education Department of isolating youngsters with behavioral disabilities in a “separate and unequal educational program” that discriminates against them in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
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