If you start off with a pretty good school district in a nice area, and you start trying to improve the services that you provided to Special Ed students, you will be rewarded by having your liberality posted on the internet. Soon, your school district will be absolutely swamped with Special Ed students.
School districts often refuse to pay to send children to superior privately run programs even if running their own program costs them more and delivers a lot less. They don’t want to create a precedent of entitlement to private programs because they don’t want to become a “magnet district” for families of low-performing, high-cost children. If you want to keep property values high, the trick is to attract families with high-performing children.
