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NY Times: Texas not providing federally guaranteed education to disabled kids in TYC

"Texas has both a moral and legal obligation to remake a system that is crippling, then writing off, the state?s most vulnerable children," the New York Times editorialized yesterday in reaction to the recent Ombudsman's report (pdf) on carceral education at the Texas Youth Commission, analyzed earlier by Grits here. Noting that "more than 40 percent of the students in custody have been identified as having disabilities that make them eligible for services and protections under the federal Individuals With Disabilities Education Act," the Times opined that:The State Legislature will need to do at least two things if it hopes to correct these problems. First, it needs to require localities to provide disabled children with the school services they are entitled to under federal law, instead of just dumping them onto streets...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).