A Troubled System

The D.C. school system budget consistently underestimates tuition payments for special education students at private schools, which have gone up 65 percent since 2000. Most of the students were sent there by hearing officers who found they were not getting adequate public services. The District also must pay parents' legal fees in such cases.

A Troubled System

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