The city spends over a billion a year on special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white parents.
By
Anya Kamenetz,
who writes the Substack "The Golden Hour."
She is the author of “The Stolen Year” and “The Art of Screen Time.”
How did New York come to spend over a billion dollars a year settling special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white parents?
The city spends over a billion a year on special-education lawsuits brought, mostly, by white parents.
By
Anya Kamenetz,
who writes the Substack "The Golden Hour."
She is the author of “The Stolen Year” and “The Art of Screen Time.”

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