Thank goodness a great retort was posted to that ridiculous article using outdated studies (pre NCLB) which asserts that school districts benefit from having more kids.
The source of the true problem is how education is funded, or not, and what our national priorities have been, especially in the last 8 years. Certainly in the part of the US where I live, the school districts across our state are constantly scrambling to function with their limited budgets. IDEA mandates that all children will get their FAPE, but then the Federal budget routinely underfunds IDEA. SPED funding is constantly pitted against general education funding, which is not only not in the spirit of the law, but creates no incentive for districts to have even more kids protected by IDEA (and thus SPED kids).
It’s criminal that our wealthy country spends it’s bounty on funding wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when our domestic needs are woefully underfunded. Imagine the opposite: $4000.00 per second spent on our children! There would be enough for every child with every ability to get what he or she needs.
