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The new school year has not started out with success for a Bronx family. They say their son was denied access to his special needs services, days before the first day of school. State law requires parents to request services by June 1. “So here is this law that most of us were not aware of, and then it comes and goes and now we’re left in the dark wondering what’s going on,” said a Bronx mother who asked us to withhold her name for her family’s safety. Her son is homeschooled and has received occupational therapy, speech therapy and special education support services for 10 years. She received an email from the Committee on Special Education that New York City Public Schools will not provide equitable services for her son for the 2024 and 2025 school year because she missed the June 1 deadline. She says the deadline was never enforced in previous years, and that many families were unaware of it. “This is not the way it was done, the process itself, I would get in old…..