Study Touts Success Rate for New Jersey Special-Ed Placements
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Study Touts Success Rate for New Jersey Special-Ed Placements
New Jersey’s standing as the nation’s leader in the number of students with disabilities who are sent to out-of-district schools continues to generate debate over the costs and benefits.
But as school districts in recent years have reduced the number of students they send outside, a new research study commissioned by an association of private special-education schools has found that at least a sampling of New Jersey students graduating from out-of-district schools fare better than their peers in public schools nationally.
The research conducted by Johns Hopkins University researcher Deborah Carran was modeled after the federally funded National Longitudinal Transition Study completed in 2009. It looked at both New Jersey and Maryland students two years after they had left their respective schools and how they compared with the national samples.
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