Court Weighs Funding For Special Education
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Newton100 5477 days ago
Private-School Tuition at Heart of Case.
The Supreme Court will consider a question this week that has riled parents, cost local school boards here and across the country hundreds of millions of dollars, and vexed the justices themselves: When must public school officials pay for private schooling for children with special needs?
The issue has emerged as one of the fastest-growing components of local education budgets, threatening to "seriously deplete public education funds," which would....