Sentences with phrase «inadequate special education funding»

The wholly inadequate special education funding structure in North Carolina is the biggest obstacle to providing adequate services, equipment, materials, aides, and instruction to students with disabilities.

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ENN testimony to the Senate Finance Committee challenging the 13 % cap on funding for special education students due to abysmal and inadequate funding this student population receives.

North Carolina, which already scrapes the bottom of the barrel in terms of per pupil spending in general at 48th in the nation, also provides an inadequate amount of funding per special education student.

While legislators are going into special session, cities and towns across Connecticut are cutting local public school programs as a result of the inadequate education funding that is part of the state budget that was agreed upon in a deal between Governor Dannel Malloy and Democratic legislators earlier this month.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.