A former student, Aleysha Ortiz, is suing the city of Hartford and the local board of education. Ortiz alleges she graduated without learning how to read or write. She claims it was due to negligence and lack of proper support for her developmental disabilities.
The lawsuit claims Ortiz was denied necessary testing for dyslexia. It also claims she was removed from special education curriculum and only tested for developmental disabilities on her last day of school, revealing significant unmet educational needs.
I’m entirely convinced that Republicans are just using this as a wedge issue anyway; they don’t care about Aleysha one bit.
I agree it isn’t about probably isn’t about just Aleysha to them. And it shouldn’t be. The fact that it could be truly said about anyone is an indictment of the system alone.
But I don’t agree this is a wedge issue. I’ve never met one human being who opposes the idea of taxes paying for a k-12 education or accepts the results of such being illiteracy.