School
Learn about your rights or your child’s rights at school: special education, truancy, enrollment, discipline
Special Education for School Aged Children
What is Special Education?
Special education is when a child receives specialized instruction in school for their disability. The disability categories are:
Autism
Deaf-Blindness
Deafness
Emotional Disturbance
Hearing Impairment
Intellectual Disability
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopedic Impairment
Other Health Impairment
Maine public school enrollment
What schools can children in Maine go to?
Generally, a student must be a resident of a public school district to go to school there.
A student is a resident of the public school district where their parent or guardian with custody lives.