Spending on special education in Oregon needs a revamped formula, researchers find – Salem Reporter:
The additional costs of providing a fair and equal education for a deaf or blind student are about $24,000 annually, according to the U.S. Department of Education. For a student with autism, it’s closer to $29,000 and for a student with a speech language impairment it’s about $11,000.
If only we hadn’t mainstreamed students and kept open our blind and deaf schools for kids with those impairments. If you want to know where the money for education is disappearing to, it’s here. Public education is a bulk process because it’s too expensive to make it individualized. We can’t afford this.