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View Comments New Jersey will pump $125 million in additional funding into special-education programs in the coming year, a landmark increase that supporters say will ease the burden on local schools and families of students with disabilities. By law, local districts aren t allowed to take cost into account when determining educational needs for those students. But the costs of schooling for high-need students can crush the budgets of smaller communities, and lawsuits over families who feel shortchanged have become commonplace. So has pressure on parents to pick up and move to new districts thought to be more accommodating. “We were hearing people say a family moved in with three kids with challenges and now our budget is really screwed, said Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who championed the increase. We recognized that we weren’t living up to our obligation as far as extraordinary aid for special education. ....
View Comments New Jersey will pump $125 million in additional funding into special-education programs in the coming year, a landmark increase that supporters say will ease the burden on local schools and families of students with disabilities. By law, local districts aren t allowed to take cost into account when determining educational needs for those students. But the costs of schooling for high-need students can crush the budgets of smaller communities, and lawsuits over families who feel shortchanged have become commonplace. So has pressure on parents to pick up and move to new districts thought to be more accommodating. “We were hearing people say a family moved in with three kids with challenges and now our budget is really screwed, said Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who championed the increase. We recognized that we weren’t living up to our obligation as far as extraordinary aid for special education. ....
Children With Autism Miss Out as School Districts Make Their Own Rules Two New Jersey towns, Rutherford and Secaucus, are five miles apart. Students with autism in Rutherford have gotten far more in-person instruction. Eric Alarcon, 3, with his father, Reuben, and mother, Estafania, at home in Secaucus, N.J., where opportunities for classroom instruction have been rare.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times April 28, 2021Updated 7:11 a.m. ET Eric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, N.J., a 10-mile drive from Midtown Manhattan. ....
Children with autism miss out as school districts make their own rules By Tracey Tully New York Times,Updated April 28, 2021, 10:16 a.m. Email to a Friend An empty classroom at a closed school in Manhattan in July 2020.Ashley Gilbertson/NYT Eric Alarcon, who will be 4 next month, has autism. He can say a few words and identify a variety of dinosaurs. He lives with his parents in Secaucus, New Jersey, a 10-mile drive from midtown Manhattan. Eric and his peers in a special-education class have had about 100 hours of in-person instruction in the first eight months of the school year. ....