Special needs are costly as districts pay for private tuition
June 16th, 2008From the Chicago Tribune:
Students with mental illness are becoming more common in Illinois public schools, and consequently school districts face skyrocketing bills for tuition at therapeutic private schools.
At a time when the state’s budget woes have stanched the flow of new money to public schools, its budget for private tuition has grown by double digits each of the last five years, to $139.4 million this year from $47.1 million in 2003.
Driving the increase, in part, is the fact that emotionally disturbed children in Illinois are much more likely to attend private schools—often at taxpayers’ expense—than students in other state
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