The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services released a Return to School Roadmap: Development and Implementation of Individualized Education Programs in the Least Restrictive Environment under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Many topics are covered including meeting timelines, ensuring implementation of initial evaluation and reevaluation procedures, determining eligibility for special education and related services, providing the full array of special education and related services that children with disabilities need in order to receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as well as the implications of delayed evaluations and early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families/guardians served under IDEA Part C.
The roadmap clarifies that, regardless of the COVID19 pandemic or distance-learning, children with disabilities are entitled to FAPE and infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families/guardians to appropriate IDEA Part C services.
You can view the roadmap here.