Sept 6, 2019, KVUE TV, Austin, TX: Leander ISD to add 20 new special education positions this school year The total cost of the positions is an estimated $795,176 https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/schools/leander-isd-new-special-education-positions/269-cefaf41a-af44-426f-b9ec-b53db9e3aae7 LEANDER, Texas —At their meeting on Thursday, the Leander ISD board voted to add 20 new special education positions for the 2019-2020 school year. The total cost of the positions is an estimated $795,176. The board voted six to zero, with one member absent. According to a revised board agenda item obtained by KVUE, prior to this vote, LISD special education staffing was increased for the 2019-2020 school year using a growth estimate of 6.9%. But as of Aug. 15, the district's special education population has grown by 9.3% and the district said trend data indicates that growth will continue throughout the year. The agenda item said the caseloads of the district's support staff – including occupational/physical therapists, speech pathologists, licensed school psychology specialists, diagnosticians and ARD facilitators – have also increased significantly over the last two years as the district's special education population has increased.
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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.
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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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