The Worst Victims of the Education Sequester: Special-Needs Students and Poor Kids

Source: theatlantic.com Posted By: Melody D...4066 days ago

The sequester's guillotine has little regard for good or bad programs as it unselectively slices spending across the country, but perhaps nowhere does its indiscriminate blade fall more harshly than within education. The students who will lose out will be the ones we should be most careful to protect: children from poor families and special needs kids.

Federal funding for education will be slashed by 5.1 percent, until Congress can agree on a new budget. Though the federal government only makes....

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