Attorneys for Flint children who said they were victims of a systemic failure to provide adequate special education and related services in the aftermath of the city’s water crisis have agreed on the details of a $9.

More than a decade after the beginning of the Flint Water Crisis, the community's schools will see $9.7 million settlement for special education.

Millions of dollars will go to improving the special education system in Flint, Mich.'s schools—part of a legal settlement meant to benefit students who were affected by dangerous levels of lead in the city’s water supply discovered nearly a decade ago.

Flint, Mich., made a controversial decision to switch its water supply from the clean waters of Lake Huron to the polluted Flint River.