Students with disabilities are entitled to a free, appropriate public education from birth to age 21. For residents of Baltimore, City Schools provides a range of services to ensure that all students' needs are met, whether in regular education classes, resource rooms or self-contained classes at public schools, separate special education centers, or nonpublic special education schools. Students receive appropriate supports, interventions, and rigorous instruction, with the goals of high achievement and postsecondary success. We also offer special education programs and services for young children with Individualized Education Programs (IEP).
To the maximum extent appropriate, students with disabilities are educated with children who are not disabled, and special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the particular child's disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.