Sentences with phrase «special ed voucher»

A broader special ed voucher program with no veto power for public school officials would dramatically level the playing field.

Jay Greene and Stuart Buck explained how special ed vouchers work and dispelled myths about the vouchers in an article appearing in the Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next.

On Top of the News Stop Burning NY's Special Ed Dollars New York Post 2/1/12 Behind the Headline The Case for Special EducationVouchers Education Next Winter 2010 Former State Assemblyman Michael Benjamin makes the case for special ed vouchers in New York City in an op - ed appearing in today's Post.

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.

The moral and equitable case for providing special ed vouchers is strong: some special ed students get a raw deal from the traditional public schools, which often are unable to provide the needed services or specialized teachers that a disabled student needs.

But the problem with existing special ed vouchers under IDEA is that they are available only when parents prove that the public school is inadequate.

Indeed, in a certain sense, special ed vouchers have already existed nationwide for some 35 years under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, which allows special ed students to attend private school at public expense.

Instead, special ed vouchers would let more parents and children receive the services they need, at the time and place that they choose.

Moreover, broadly available special ed vouchers could save money for financially strapped public schools, given that special ed vouchers are typically limited to the lower of the amount the public school would have spent or the private school tuition.

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.

For further discussion of these points — and several other reasons to support special ed vouchers — see our new article, as well as this video interview of Jay Greene by Paul Peterson.

Not exact matches

In Washington, schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is considering a plan that would offer vouchers to special ed students in need of full - time placements.

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.

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This week's NPR story about vouchers for special ed kids shared an unfortunate feature with a recent NYT piece on the same subject, according to Fordham Institute head Mike Petrilli: it didn't include anyone who was happy with school choice.

This rude awakening comes courtesy of Florida, where allegations of lax monitoring of schools participating in the otherwise wildly successful McKay voucher program — which is aimed at helping special ed students avoid the pits of American public education — has prompted a state legislative crackdown.

But, as in the case of the for - profit college sector, the lax oversight of the vouchers, along with the loosening of standards for providing them to students, has perpetuated the kind of fraud that can be as damaging to special ed students — many of whom likely were really struggling with reading than actually learning disabled — as condemning them to traditional school ghettos.

And thirdly, they defend choice against the entreaties of traditionalists such as the Florida Education Association, the affiliate of both the National Education Association affiliates and the American Federation of Teachers that just filed suit this week against the Sunshine State's expansion of vouchers for kids trapped in special ed ghettos.