Wis. Republicans and ALEC Push Vouchers on Disabled Kids

Ruth Conniff:

It's crunch time on school vouchers for disabled kids in Wisconsin.

Last summer, I wrote about how Republicans and school choice groups are targeting kids in special ed.

A particularly noxious piece of "school reform" legislation, drafted by ALEC (The American Legislative Exchange Council) and pushed by Republicans in statehouses around the country, would get unsophisticated parents to swap their kids' federally protected right to a free, appropriate public education for school vouchers of highly dubious value to the kids.

How dubious? An expose in the Miami New Times tracked the fly-by-night academies housed in strip malls where special ed kids with vouchers wasted hours crammed into makeshift classrooms with bored, untrained, and sometimes abusive teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 5, 2012 1:03 AM
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