NSBA Seeks Clarification from OCR about Students with Disabilities Participating in Sports

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is calling on the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to elaborate on its guidance relating to students with disabilities and their participation in school sports.   Specifically, the NSBA, which represents state associations of school boards and their more than 90,000 local school board members, issued a letter urging OCR to reach out to school boards and educators before issuing wide-reaching guidance that can be cons