New Jersey has the lowest rates of inclusion for students in special education in the country

New Jersey has the lowest rates of inclusion for students in special education in the country

New Jersey students with disabilities are the least likely in the nation to spend their days surrounded by peers without disabilities. One underlying reason: a sprawling network of separate schools that allows districts to outsource educating them.New Jersey has more than a hundred private schools, plus eight county-run districts specifically for students with disabilities. Districts spend hundreds of millions of dollars placing students in priv…