Wisconsin: Vouchers for special education will hasten money drain from public schools.

[Scuba]

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/vouchers-special-education-will-hasten-money-drain-public-school

It costs about $12,000 to educate a k-12 student in Wisconsin. However, if that student has special needs that average cost per student (and the key word here is average) jumps to around $27,000 a year. (And bear with me for using rounded and averaged numbers.)

Special needs is a broad category. One student may have a reading disorder which may require only an hour a day with a reading specialist. Another student may be severely disabled and require a full-time aide, assigned to that student for the entire day. In some cases this may be portal-to-portal assistance requiring that aide to be on the bus with their charge to and from school. That aide may also undergo student-specific training to administer medications or deal with medical emergencies.

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So the legislature is toying with the idea of providing vouchers at a still-to-be-determined amount, an amount higher than the current $6,700 voucher, to serve special needs students without the requirement to serve all takers.

It is easy to see what will happen. The private schools can turn this into a cash cow, cherry-picking the students with the reading disorder and leaving those with profound needs to the public schools.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I used to wonder how long it would take Wisconsin to recover from

the damage Tommy did to it during his 3+ terms. Funny how Walker gives you a whole new perspective on political corruption.

[Scuba]

2. Wanker makes Tommy look like a statesman.