Special Ed Inequalities

"With high-stakes testing and the grueling competition to get into colleges, special education seems to have lost its stigma. Parents want accommodations for their children — more time on tests, less homework, more individualized instruction.

In wealthier towns such as Greenwich or Westport, parents are fighting for horseback riding and dance lessons for sensory integration disorders and coordination; others have fought for and won an education at therapeutic day schools to the tune of 40 grand a year, paid at the district's expense."

This article, by Elizabeth Brown for the Hartford Courant, continues here.