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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to know how the voucher system benefits students with special needs. The article gives only passing mention of this issue.  Are schools that accept vouchers required to comply with federal requirements under IDEA?  If so, how are these arrangements tracked and do families have recourse if a private school fails to provide supports required?  If not, why not?[/quote]

In other states there are vouchers offered to students with special needs and IEPs and, upon accepting the voucher, the parent has to waive their right to IDEA and the schools do NOT have to comply with IEPs.

Of course not every parent understands this - many stories of families who got screwed in Florida this way (a program that DeVos really likes and hopes to replicate in more states). But there are also parents who are happy.

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So students with SNs are once again given short shrift in a voucher system where they either don't even get offered the choice of using a voucher or if they do, the choice includes losing their federally guaranteed right to access the school's curriculum on as equal a footing as a student without SN?  How is this fair?  [/quote]

It isn't. [/quote]

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