Panel Urges More Spec.-Ed. Students, Money Go To Regular Classes

By Lynn Schnaiberg

An independent panel charged with finding ways to improve New York City's troubled special-education system has renewed its earlier call for shifting more students, services, and money into general education.

Former Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines, who resigned last fall, requested the report a year ago, and many of its conclusions echoed those of an earlier draft. (See Education Week, May 31, 1995.)

The report's authors, five faculty members from New York University, hope their proposals will transcend changes in administration. Both the city and the state have new education leaders, with Rudy F. Crew as the schools chancellor and Richard P. Mills as the...