Milwaukee suit seeks education for overlooked students
December 1st, 2008
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Kina King says the Milwaukee Public Schools didn’t determine that her daughter Jamie Stokes (left) needed special education services until she had failed first grade three times.
Now 16, Jamie reads at the level of a second grader. She is at the center of a class-action suit seeking “compensatory education” for students whose disabilities were not identified in a timely fashion.
School district leaders fear that providing tutoring, speech therapy and other services for the overlooked students could cost millions.


