The District Fails to Provide Transportation for Students with Disabilities
Parents and guardians of children with disabilities living in the District of Columbia, along with The Arc of the United States, filed a class action lawsuit on March 7, 2024 against DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) for failing to provide safe, reliable and effective transportation to and from schools for children with disabilities, thereby denying students equal access to their education and unnecessarily segregating them from their peers.
Updates: On October 28, 2025 we testified before the DC Council about DC’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education. During the hearing, we shared a new data analysis of school bus trip tickets conducted by Bates White Economic Consulting LLC.
Read the full declaration from Bates White as filed in federal court on October 15, 2025. Additional declarations, including those from 16 families who continue to experience bus delays and disruptions are available under Supplemental Brief below.
I’m excited that the case is moving forward. I hope that this can be the beginning of some real systemic change for my son and others.
– Ms. Joann McCray, mom of 12 year-old boy
Has your child been impacted by DC bus transportation issues?
One day – nearly two years after my sister died, my nephew was dropped off at his deceased mother’s home.
– Ms. Robertson, guardian and aunt of 11 year-old boy
Because he consistently arrived home late, he would miss critical applied behavior analysis and occupational therapist services that were ordered by his doctor.
– Sra. Guerrero, mother of 14 year-old boy
Class Certification
Preliminary Injunction
- Emergency Motion / Preliminary Injunction (PI)
- District’s Response to PI
- Reply to District’s Response
Motion to Dismiss
Supplemental Brief
- Motion to File Supplemental Brief
- Supplemental Brief
- Declarations from 16 families who continue to experience bus delays and disruptions
- Declaration from Bates White Economic Consulting LLC with their review of OSSE’s bus tracking data
Additional Materials
Media Inquiries
Contact Allyson Boucher: aboucher@childrenslawcenter.org or 202-519-2126.
The plaintiffs on this case are represented by Shira Wakschlag and Evan Monod of The Arc of the United States; Kathy Zeisel of DC’s Children’s Law Center; Kaitlin R. Banner, Margaret F. Hart and Chelsea Sullivan of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; and Margaret H. Warner, Eugene I. Goldman, Theodore E. Alexander, Christopher M. Shoemaker and Madeleine C. Wettach of McDermott Will & Shulte.
