http://www.educationnews.org/ed_reports/thinks_tanks/151930.html
Thank you for this story. Finally, we are talking about burdensome federal regulations.
However, the story has a HUGE gap–not a word about special education. That arena alone is burdened by paperwork, has onerous bureaucratic requirements that impede teaching and learning for all students, and costs schools some 20-40% of their budgets–though we don’t even know how much of that cost is due to bureaucratic requirements. The legal requirements in this arena alone take up hours and hours of educators’ and administrators’ time, drive teachers away from the field, take teachers away from precious time-on-task with students, and incubates litigation and the fear of litigation in our schools.
It’s time to place this arena on the table. I’m disappointed that it is not there yet.
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