That Time of Year.
By Jim Conley • January 31st, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Just a hunch, but given that the Town’s financial picture is worsening by the day, isn’t it about time for us to start hearing that Special Education costs are a huge drag on the Brookline budget?
It usually goes like this (from the report [available here] of the CPA Study Committee chaired by School Committee Member Kevin Lang and Selectman Nancy Daly):
“Medical advances save the lives of newborns and increase our knowledge of how to educate disabled children but generate escalating special education costs.”
Creepy stuff, that.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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