(Austin, TX) — The Texas Education Agency is suspending its arbitrary cap on the enrollment of special-education students, but it’s also arguing that it didn’t do anything wrong by imposing the cap and punishing the school districts that didn’t comply.
A special investigation by the “Houston Chronicle” found that as many as a-quarter-million disabled children in Texas were denied special services by school districts seeking to avoid TEA audits.
The agency argues that the benchmark was not a cap and was not installed to save money.
But the newspaper reports that hundreds of millions of dollars may have been saved in Texas by curbing tutoring, therapy and other services to disabled children.
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