Nov 6, 2018, SI Live: Thousands on S.I. didn’t receive needed special ed services, data shows https://www.silive.com/news/2018/11/thousands-on-si-didnt-receive-needed-special-ed-services-data-shows.html
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Nearly 25 percent of Staten Island students either didn’t receive all of the special education services to which they were entitled, or received no services at all last year, according to data released by education officials.
About 3,667 students, or 24.9 percent, received no services or only partial services.
The Department of Education (DOE) released new data on Friday that shows how many students received, or didn’t receive, services to which they were entitled during the 2017-2018 school year.
About 1.3 percent of Staten Island special education students, or 191 students, didn’t receive any services, while 23.6 percent, or about 3,476 students, on Staten Island only received a fraction of those services.
About 75 percent of Staten Island, or 11,049 students, fully received services they were owed….
There were 14,732 Staten Island students with IEPs recommended for a special education program last year….
[Official reports put Staten Island SPED rates at 24%.]
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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.
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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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