As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments about funding for special education, editorial writers at the Baltimore Sun say the case highlights the need for improving the quality of public education for all children. An excerpt:

Whatever the court decides in this case, funding special education will remain a problem until some form of comprehensive education reform is enacted. Private institutions will never be able to make up for the failures of large numbers of public school special-ed programs that don’t work. What’s needed are across-the-board improvements in public education that also include raising the quality of instruction and services offered to children with special needs.

See also: Why deny D.C. children what students with disabilities get? Editorial in the Washington Post. An excerpt:

Public schools should be pressed to do a better job for students with disabilities and students without. But there are schools in Washington where statistics show that failure is almost guaranteed. If a school system can’t educate a child — whether because of acute special needs or its own historical failings — why should that child not have options for a “free appropriate public education”?

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