As in NY State.
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania students with disabilities will now be able to attend school until age 22, officials announced last week — a change forced by a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Lower Merion student.
Federal law obligates public schools to educate students with disabilities until they earn a regular diploma or turn 22, but Pennsylvania had been forcing students to graduate at the end of the school year they turn 21.
In July, lawyers working on behalf of a Lower Merion student with multiple disabilities, identified only as A.P. in legal documents, asked a federal judge to step in to stop the practice, and to grant class-action status.