Nov 20, 2018, Marshfield (MA)Wicked: Hanover special ed deficit will be covered by Circuit Breaker program http://hanover.wickedlocal.com/news/20181120/hanover-special-ed-deficit-will-be-covered-by-circuit-breaker-program Special education expenses have set the school budget back more than $570,000 this fiscal year, but Thomas Rabb, assistant superintendent for business and finance, isn’t panicking. There is currently a deficit of $570,404.70 in the monthly reporting summary that represents special education expenses that have not been encumbered against the school’s Circuit Breaker funds…. Circuit Breaker funding is money the school district gets back from the out of district placement of students. If, for example, a special needs student from Hanover attends a different school due to their needs exceeding what the school can provide, the district will receive a certain percentage of the tuition back. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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