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To: KyrosL who wrote (230500)	8/31/2013 12:34:13 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542950

Special needs education should definitely be funded by the federal government. After all, the laws that impose these requirement were passed by federal legislators. I'm not certain that's the case. I do know that in New Jersey, the movement to cut funding for special education program is directed at the state government, not the federal government. And conversations around programs, criteria for student selection, and so on focus on state regulations. So, at least in New Jersey, it's experienced as less of a federal mandate than a state one. Having said that, it's certainly a good idea to support funding at some sort of floor like level at the federal level, leaving the states to do more but not less.

To: KyrosL who wrote (230500)	8/31/2013 1:03:17 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542950

Poor students, and immigrants, are often hugely over represented in special education. Interestingly, many times poor English speakers end up there because of language issues rather than special ed issues. It's a real problem. And then there's the "boy" diagnosis- where boys are often identified as special ed just for behavior that I think is simply on the boy continuum. If you look at Special Education it's highly populated with boys. It's as if we are medicalizing boyness. And I've no idea why uneducable profoundly retarded children are in the education system at all.

To: KyrosL who wrote (230500)	8/31/2013 2:15:33 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 542950

It also BTW is one of the factors to pay attention to when right-wing Think Tanks compare the efficiency of public vs private education. I'm not sure of what the laws actually require, but I do know that religious private K-12 schools seem to be exempt from spending on special needs. So parents who send their kids to these private schools, send any kids that have expensive special needs over to the public school instead. Then those with ideological axes to grind generate stats on the output and cost of the private school vs the public one next door who shoulders all the special ed expense for both schools.