No Dept. of Education? Now who is going to help all those special needs students and their parents who ...

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14. A LOT of the money comes from the feds

As someone who has knowledge of it, you are correct that the services provided are local.

The baseline special education services are provided by local and state $, the classrooms, general texts, teachers. But, the great portion of the specific services provided are funded by the feds.

The depth and quality of special education at the k-12 would take a major hit without federal funds.

Also, as parents of a needs child and being family with that community, there are a large portion of "conservatives" with need students, and I have long tried to explain that their children will be in jeopardy, but as with most things they tend to entitled and narcisistic, and it was a lost cause.

They will lose their minds if their child loses services, while still railing on about the liberals and voting their "values."