New ‘Avonte’s Law’ to Aid Special-Needs Students

NEW YORK

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday signed a law to make schools safer for students with special needs. Schools must now evaluate the need for alarms on all exterior doors at elementary schools and those serving students with special needs. “Avonte’s Law” is named for an autistic Queens boy who left through an unalarmed door at his school and was found dead.

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