Bipartisan Government Accountability Office Request Focuses on Impact of COVID-19 on These Students
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) are requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of how colleges and universities are working to ensure that students with disabilities can access the same learning opportunities as their peers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The three Senators serve on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
“Under normal circumstances, accessing the appropriate accommodations can prove challenging for students in higher education,” wrote the Senators. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, students face many of the same challenges in accessing appropriate accommodations as they did prior to the pandemic, but must now do so navigating remote and distanced learning.”
The Senators are requesting that the GAO conduct a review that details the challenges that students with disabilities are facing – including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic – and examples of how institutions of higher learning have succeeded in supporting these students.
Read the letter to the GAO here.
