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The 2013 U.S. budget fails to fulfill the promise to fund IDEA

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Part of President Obama’s platform when he was campaigning 4 years ago was to fully fund the Federal commitment to special education. On average, a special education student requires about twice the funding as a regular education student. The Federal government made a commitment to pay states 40% of the costs of special education, but [...]

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Sacramento County Schools “See” The Invisible Epidemic

Monday, September 5th, 2011

At the end of this past week, California’s Sacramento Bee reports that “Autism rates quadruple in local schools over last decade“. The article, written by Phillip Reese, seems largely unremarkable. Even though headline is suggestive, there are no claims of “autism epidemic” that follow. In fact, Reese points out that: Whether autism is actually more [...]

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Grand Jury says special education underfunded

Friday, July 1st, 2011

This sounded like it could be a good news story. Grand Jury says special education underfunded is a news story out of Ridgecrest California. (If you aren’t familiar with the geography, Ridgecrest is in the southern part of the Owens River valley north of LA in what would be a desert/rural area except for China [...]

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California’s Specific Learning Disabilities Counter Epidemic

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

The U.S. and California Departments of Education recently released special education data (child counts) for the 2008-2009 school year. A particular focus in the media has been a tripling of the number of students who wear a special education label of “autism” in California. Needless to say, some probably see this as confirmation of an [...]

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