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What is behind the increase in students in special education?
Special Education services have been available in schools since the passage of PL94-142 in 1975. By 1995 the number of students with disabilities served in Special Ed in the U.S. was around 5 million. In the next decade, those numbers would rise to over 6 million. The number of school-aged children with disabilities fell to a low of 5.67 million in the fall of 2011. However the most recent statistics available (2014) shows a definite upswing to 5.83 million.
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