Special Education Reform Plan Makes Valuable Improvements

Issue Brief

Policymakers seeking to improve special education in the United States face a system that is:

• Vast – nearly one in eight U.S. schoolchildren is currently considered disabled;
• Complex – federal laws and regulations governing special education are among the most complicated and bureaucratic of any in the federal code;
• Expensive – one study estimated that over $77 billion is spent annually to provide education for students with disabilities, and
• Growing – by more than one-third over the past decade.

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