Special Education Is Broken
January 8, 2019
By: Christina A. Samuels
Source: Education Week
Over 43 years later, others still hold Ford’s concerns, and they aren’t opponents of the law. Rather, people who have spent their professional careers or personal lives deeply involved in the cause of educating students with disabilities are the same ones who are troubled—publicly and privately—about special education as functional law and as a process intended to get students the education that they need.
What is now the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was the culmination of decades of activism all over the country. Now that the law is here, it will take a revival of that same spirit to fix what is broken in the implementation.