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The purpose of our piece was to summarize a body of research supporting the desirability of special education vouchers.

In addition to legal challenges, opponents of special education vouchers are beginning to advance political and educational arguments against the idea as new programs are being considered in states such as Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and the existing Ohio program is poised to expand.

«The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence From Florida's McKay Scholarship Program»

In a feature article for the winter 2010 issue of Education Next, education researchers Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck of the University of Arkansas, drawing on extensive previous research on the effects of special education vouchers, dispel several common myths about these programs and show how they have benefited handicapped children in states where they have been enacted, including those not in private placements.

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The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

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This year, Immaculate also began accepting the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, a different kind of voucher that allows students on Individualized Education Plans to attend private schools and receive a voucher worth up to $ 20,000, depending on the severity of a child's disability.

A proposed $ 5 million voucher program for military families that have children with special education needs is part of the defense - spending bill that Congress will take up in its post-election lame - duck session.

Special education voucher laws are very straightforward: The parents of any child found in need of a special education can ask the school district to pay for their child's education at a school the parent has identified as approSpecial education voucher laws are very straightforward: The parents of any child found in need of a special education can ask the school district to pay for their child's education at a school the parent has identified as approspecial education can ask the school district to pay for their child's education at a school the parent has identified as appropriate.

However, Greene and Buck find that vouchers are unlikely to increase the burden on districts: Special education voucher laws typically stipulate that the voucher amount should reflect the severity of the disability and that the cost to the district may not exceed the average cost the state pays for the education of children with similar conditions.

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

Measures on knotty issues expected to be the heart of the Individuals with Disabilities Act revision — reducing paperwork related to the law, disciplining special education students, «fully funding» the law, and offering a voucher program for students with disabilities — will...

The rights of parents are seemingly identical under IDEA and under special education voucher laws, but the ease with which parents can exercise those rights is profoundly different.

The willingness of public schools to put students into special education might be constrained if those schools feared that students would walk out the door with a voucher and all of their funding.

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Almost 15 percent of students in the United States are said to have a disability under the procedures established by IDEA, so in states with special education vouchers, the potential for program growth is considerable.

In a 2008 study, we examined whether the academic achievement of special education students was affected by the number of options they had to leave their public school with a voucher.

In general, the cost and incidence of private placements appear to have been exaggerated in the media (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, and «Debunking a Special Education Myth,» check the facts, Spring 2007).

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types, taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»

Although few and far between, private placements nonetheless are an important constitutional precedent for special education vouchers, as the latter constitute only an extension of a long - standing practice that dates back to the civil - rights revolution.

As the opportunity for private placement with a special education voucher becomes better known to parents, and as private providers become aware of the possibility of a larger clientele, one can anticipate an inexorable growth in the size and popularity of these programs.

Again, she ignores the several studies we cited, demonstrating that the current system of special education placement contributes to over-identification of disabilities and that vouchers would check that perverse incentive.

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

The protestations, complaints, and handwringing that swiftly followed were to be expected — Matt Ladner weighed in (on Jay Greene's blog) within hours, for example, terming Texas «nothing short of disgraceful» and urging that it try Florida - style special - ed vouchers — and the feds will inevitably look into whether Texas has violated the well - known Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), versions of which have been on the statute books since Gerald Ford (with misgivings) signed the first such measure in 1975.

There is a strong and growing body of evidence that offering special education vouchers to disabled students would be desirable public policy.

Sara Mead of the New America Foundation submitted a letter to the editor in response to our article, «The Case for Special Ed Vouchers,» which appears in the Winter 2010 issue of Education Next.

Governor Romney has made the expansion of school choice for disadvantaged students central to his campaign, calling for the expansion of the Washington, D.C., voucher program and for allowing low - income and special education students to use federal funds to enroll in private schools.

We have not been able to surmount all of the obstacles to identifying the percentage of students in private schools who would have been identified as in need of special education in public schools, but we believe we have fairly accurate information on this question for the country's largest and longest - running school - voucher program.

In other words, a child who may be classified as in need of special education in a public school may not be classified as such if his or her family chooses a private school, using a voucher to defray the cost.

In an article for Education Next, Stuart Buck and Jay Greene argue in favor of special ed vouchers that would give all parents of special needs students the ability to enroll their children in private schools without having to convince public school officials of the need for a private placement.

And, the final US Department of Education report on the Washington, DC voucher program showed that a main reason why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school with services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

Special Education Vouchers: Four State Approaches (Alexandria, Va.: National Association of State Directors of Special Education).

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GAO Recommendations: Congress should amend IDEA to require states to notify parents of changes to special education rights when they enroll a child in a school voucher program.

These reforms include charter schools, education scholarship accounts, special needs vouchers, the Literacy Based Promotion Act of 2013, and a clear A-F grading system for schools and school districts.

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

In this opinion, the New Mexico Attorney General declared that a voucher program under which the parents of exceptional children whose needs were not being met by the public schools could use the funds the school district would otherwise have spent on the children to purchase special education at private, nonsectarian institutions would be consistent with the New Mexico Constitution.

Fielding questions from members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, she said that states should decide how to address chronic absenteeism, mental health issues and suicide risks among students and that states should also decide whether children taking vouchers are protected by federal special - education law.

Students who receive three or more hours of special education services per day get vouchers worth 2.5 times the weighted pupil unit, whereas students receiving fewer than three hours per day get vouchers worth 1.5 times the weighted pupil unit.

(Less than 2 percent of students in voucher schools are identified as receiving special education services, compared to about almost 20 percent in the Milwaukee Public Schools.)

Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for a national voucher program, including any special education vouchers for military children and / or specific subgroups of students.

But education and disability - rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special - needs voucher programs than the state's education leadership.

Gretchen Cagle, director of special education at MDE, says this is common for applicants who try to use vouchers at private schools that do not exclusively serve special - needs students.

• Empowerment Through School Choice — The centerpiece of delivery system reform must be comprehensive, child - centered school choice in all of its manifestations, including vouchers, charters, online, home schooling, etc., beginning with aggressive expansion of open enrollment charter authority and voucherizing special education and students in failing schools.

Only about half of the private schools participating in voucher programs provided special education or disability related information on their websites, creating a significant problem for families making a decision about where to send their children.

Opponents of the bill argued that under the bill, private schools would be able to accept students with vouchers even if they do not have staff trained to work with special education students.

And while her supporters say she has deep knowledge when it comes to vouchers, charter schools, and other forms of choice, she appeared confused during her confirmation hearing about other areas of education policy, including special education.

I am also disappointed with the further expansions of private school vouchers and special needs vouchers which continue to take us down the path of funding dual education systems when we have not been able to maintain even inflationary increases for our constitutionally mandated public school system.