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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes and no... I would support a voucher program that could act as a true alternative to public schools. But not a voucher program that's just a hand-out to UMC/UC families.

So, that means a voucher would have to be accepted as the full tuition cost and there would have to be some expectation that the private schools would teach special needs kids to the extent possible.[/quote]

As a former special ed teacher in a private school, who also worked in public, I agree.

I wish the money that the public schools were given for dual enrolled children (those the public school tested, identified and wrote an IEP for, but the parent chose to pay for private school instead) could be transferred to the parent to offset the cost of the private school tuition or for the services like OT/PT/Speech, that the parents then have to pay for out of pocket.  Instead, the public school keeps the funding associated with those children, and calls every quarter to say, "what should I put for progress, private school teacher?".

The private school should have that $$ to pay for training, supplies, or hourly services like OG tutors, speech or counselors.  The school system gets to keep the child on the roster, but is not obligated to actually provide bus service, books, and their class sizes are smaller.

There should be vouchers for special services 1st.

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