Superintendent: Funding shortfalls create special-education inequities
Special education is the largest underfunded mandate for Michigan school districts, argues Steve Cousins, the superintendent of Michigan's Reeths-Puffer Schools. While Michigan works to provide special-education services to a wider range of people -- from birth to age 26 -- than any other state, lack of funding from state and federal governments puts the burden on local districts and causes a pattern of inequities across the state, Cousins writes in this opinion article. Muskegon Chronicle (Mich.), The (11/03)