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In most school districts, special ed serves around 15% of the students, and uses more than 20% of the budget. And that doesn't include the cost of the regular ed services that special ed kids need. This program is so terribly overmandated and underfunded that even giving the schools all these new fed payments hardly covers what they'll pay out in the next year. Dump Davis.

This program is so terribly overmandated and underfunded that even giving the schools all these new fed payments hardly covers what they'll pay out in the next year.

Yep. The article says the the $135 million doesn't come close to covering the expenses to date.

Why the heck do we need so much for special education?

If I were spending the money, I'd spend nothing on students who can't learn, and pour my resources into those who can.

I don't understand this obsession with pouring money down the rathole of the weak, the stupid and the handicapped.

I remember seeing a course catalogue that included a three-part course on "The Exceptional Child". I thought it was going to be neat stuff for the brilliant, but it went something like this: Part I addressed disrupters. Part II addressed the retarded. Part III addressed the physically handicapped. If there was time, the gifted might get a few scraps.

What kind of pathetic society are we going to have in the future, if we give all our attention to those who don't deserve any?