Special Ed Funding
The Scandal of Special-Ed
June 01, 1999 Filed in: Education
Programs
Robert Worth, The Washington Monthly Online
It wastes money and hurts
the poor: Reforming IDEA is no easy task. Any politician who
touches it runs the risk of being branded a cold-hearted enemy of
kids in wheelchairs. But before we start pouring billions more into
the program, Congress should ask whether it's really serving the
goal of equal opportunity for all. And if special ed has become a
kind of band-aid for schools that lack money to teach their kids
adequately, or for kids whose parents never prepared them in the
first place, then perhaps it's time to address those problems
head-on. Kids like Garret Frey deserve a shot at success--but not
at the expense of kids like Saundra Lemons…
Why doesn't federal government fully fund special ed?
May 19, 2010 Filed in: Education
Programs
Column: Carol Veravanich, The Orange County
Register It
really stuck out that the federal government only funds special
education 19 percent when they should fund it at least 40 percent.
Seems to me that they should fund it 100 percent and then we would
be out of the woods, so to speak. Is this an Obama administration
cut from funding it down to 19 percent from 40 percent?
O.C. superintendents lobby for reforms
May 14, 2010 Filed in: Budget & Finance
| Superintendents
Fermin Leal, The Orange County Register
Orange County’s public
schools could avert further massive budget cuts if state and
federal lawmakers allow more local control over restricted money
for schools, end unnecessary and unfunded mandates and pay their
fair share of special education costs, county school leaders said
Friday. Twenty superintendents from the county’s 28 districts
gathered at the county Department of Education headquarters to
announce their campaign for reforms they say would relieve much of
the budgetary constraints facing public schools…