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·The total cost of special education is an estimated $32 billion per year.
·Special Education students as a group have higher-than-average dropout rates and lower-than-average work force participation and college attendance.
·Before the IDEA, many students with disabilities had severely limited access to education, jobs, and simple participation in society. As recently as 1973, more than one million children were denied enrollment in public schools solely because of their disabilities.
·Today, all students have a constitutional guarantee of a free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive environment, regardless of disability.
·A major question remaining is whether special education as practiced today is the most efficient and effective way to educate students with special needs.