N.Y.C. Spec.-Ed. Panel Urges ShiftingMore Students Into General Education
An independent panel studying New York City's beleaguered special-education programs has recommended big changes--most aimed at shifting more students, services, and money into general education.
The five-member panel, made up of faculty members from New York University, is one of two groups appointed by Schools Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines last December to recommend improvements in special education. Nearly 140,000 of the city's more than one million schoolchildren are in special education.
The proposal, released this month, comes in the wake of longstanding criticism of the program and at a time of big money woes...
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