Guest guest Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 No, that is not what I said. I'm sorry you misunderstood. Since this is a message board to discuss autism, and discussions have centered on the inadequate services for these children specifically in our public schools, it is also appropriate and relevant to look at those numbers in terms of the potential impact on the autism student population. More so than the entire student population whose needs are not as extreme. Obviously, the surplus would never be assigned to only students with autism, or even entirely to the public school education budget. But it provides an interesting contrast to splitting that figure across the entire student base. Autism is by far the most highly litigated area of special education. If we took the money going to the school law firms and assigned it directly to providing services to children with autism, that would not be " short-sighted " either. > > > > $7 billion in reserve sounds like a lot of money until you consider that > > Texas had 4,576,993 students enrolled in public schools in the 2006-2007 > > school year. That breaks down to $1,529 per enrolled student. These > > numbers came from > http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/aeis/2007/state.html > > . When you consider that per pupil spending for the 2005-2006 > school year > > (most recent available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker) was > > $7,504 how much difference could an additional $1,529 per child make? > > > > > > > > Tonya > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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