How DeVos & Co. Use Special Ed. to Privatize Public Schools and End Student Services
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her corporate friends are about dumping civil rights protections regarding IDEA. Special education has become a means to transform public education into choice and charter schools while ending student services.
This is done by defunding special education and convincing parents that services don’t matter. Dismantling services in public schools shouldn’t be allowed. It destroys IDEA protections and drives parents to seek vouchers.
Below I list one of the corporations working to end special education.
It’s important to remember what life was like before IDEA and not go backwards in time to when children did not get the services they deserved due to learning difficulties.
If my son Jonah was ready for school before 1975 our district could have refused to educate him. But he is protected under IDEA and our district has to follow the rules. If at any time during his school years (he just aged out) our district refused to adhere to CONTINUE READING: How DeVos & Co. Use Special Ed. to Privatize Public Schools and End Student Services
