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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the timeframe of the special master’s services.

After a federal judge in 2023 ordered city officials to make dozens of reforms to more swiftly provide special education services to families who won legal disputes, top Education Department officials embraced the extra oversight .

Yet almost as soon as the order was handed down, the city began to miss deadlines . Now, two years later, the Education Department has failed to comply with most of the order’s requirements.

At the time of the ruling, former schools Chancellor David Banks displayed an unusual level of support for a court action targeting

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