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Parents of special-ed. children, for example, often suspect that schools try to deny their kids the help they need, and to which they are legally entitled, in order to save money. School officials counter that onerous regulations force them to spend more time worrying about potential lawsuits than about education. They also fume at parents who solicit bogus diagnoses of learning disabilities so their children will get more attention...
Last year 1 in 8 kids in the public school population, 5.4 million, were in special ed., up from 4.8 million five years earlier. In New York City the number of special-education kids has soared from 40,000 to 165,000 in the past two decades, even as total enrollment has declined by 100,000. Boston's special-ed. budget has almost doubled in the past eight years, from $65 million to $116 million, and now consumes almost a quarter of the total budget. Special-ed. spending nationally has doubled during the past 25 years to $30 billion, according...
...federal special-ed. law enacted in 1975 was supposed to cover 40% of these costs. No such luck: last year the federal share of national spending for special education was a mere 7%. Every state now has its own special-ed. law as well, and support at that level varies. Massachusetts, which has one of the highest percentages of special-ed. students of any state in the country (11.1%), picked up only 17% of the costs last year. One way to reduce the burden, many believe, is to bring youngsters now taught in separate settings into regular classrooms. Under this...
...ED GOLDSTEIN, 63; WARREN, N.J.; founder, the Valerie Fund When his daughter Valerie was battling cancer, Goldstein and his family were forced to take her to New York for treatment unavailable in their home state. After her death at age nine in 1976, he started the Valerie Fund, a money-raising endeavor that has spawned New Jersey's largest network of pediatric- oncology centers. "We wish we didn't have to grow, but unfortunately the disease runs rampant," he says. "We hope someday to go out of business...
...Right, Ed, he's got to throw the Hail Mary...