Reporting Highlights
Toehold Strategy: Lawmakers created voucher programs for children with disabilities as part of a strategy to pave the way for today’s much larger programs open to all students.
Closed Doors: Unlike public schools, private ones generally aren’t required to educate students with disabilities. They often don’t.
Few Choices: In Florida, home to the nation’s largest voucher programs, we found that more than half of private schools say they do not serve students with any type of disabilities.
These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.
