Editorial: ‘The test of services should be whether students benefit’
June 26th, 2008Editors at the Newport News [Virginia] Daily Press support proposed state regulations that would allow educators to end a student’s special education services without the approval of parents. The changes are needed, they say, to bring special education spending under control.
… in some ways, the pendulum may have swung too far. Burdensome federal laws put a huge load on public school budgets. Even when disabilities are so profound there’s no expectation of real educational gains as we usually think of them, all children are accommodated, never mind the expense.
… Without challenging the validity of any testing or identification, it is nonetheless clear that the special education boom has skewed the ability of schools to serve all children well.
… While including parents is important, and something special education is, in fact, particularly careful about, parents can’t be the last say.
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