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Part of your education plan is to provide 1-on-1 help for kids who are not reading at grade level.  I'm curious about this because I don't know of any research that supports this as  a method for improving a low reader's performance (works great to initially teach kids to read).  But more importantly,

do you know how much this will cost?

how will you pay for this, especially if you also cut the budget and cut taxes?   

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I am a psychologist who works for a small school district.  I perform assessments with students as part of the process of determining eligibility for sped services.  The post-high school experiences of sped students, just like non-sped students, depends on a myriad of factors. The future of a child aging out of foster care is much different than that of one with a family who can provide emotional, financial, and social support indefinitely.  No matter how hard/well the sped system works, it cannot overcome the effects of poverty, social prejudice towards the disabled, lack of resources and support for disabled adults, lack of available employment, and severity of an individual's disability. If any of us - the state included - wants disabled youth to be employed or in post-secondary education after high school, society is going to have to increase the resources available to these kids.  Considering the unwillingness of Oregon taxpayers to pay for such services, it's hard to imagine anything changing.  

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