WaPo: Why deny D.C. Children What Special-Needs Students Get?

Dan Lips / April 28, 2009

This morning, the editors of the Washington Post once again highlighted the need to give disadvantaged families the power to choose the right school for their children:

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today about the use of public money for the private schooling of children with special needs. It’s interesting to note what’s not at issue: namely, that when a public school system is unable to provide an appropriate education, it is obligated to pay the costs of private school. Too bad poor children don’t have that unassailable right; if they did, there would be no controversy about the District program that gives vouchers to low-income children to attend private schools. (more…)