More on Special Ed Voucher Study
We mentioned it this morning in the news clips that the Manhattan Institute has released a new study by Drs. Jay Greene and Marcus Winters examining the impact of special education vouchers.
Countrary to what some had predicted, Winters and Greene found that ”offering disabled students special education vouchers reduces the likelihood that public schools will identify students as disabled.”
Jay Greene shares more about the study on his blog today, and gives some insight into the findings.
The reason special education vouchers restrained growth in disabilities, rather than exacerbate it, is that the vouchers check public schools’ financial incentives to identify more students as disabled. Public schools may get additional subsidies when they shift more students into special education, but if they then make students eligible for special education vouchers, they risk having those students walk out the door with all of their funding. It makes the public schools think twice before over-identifying disabilities for financial reasons.
Read more from Jay Greene’s blog or read the full report from the Manhattan Institute.
