Dan Gross/The Gazette Adam Russell (right), a volunteer at Washington, D.C.’s Sibley Memorial Hospital, delivers mail in the hospital with the assistance of Sam Marks, mail room supervisor. Russell graduated last year from The Ivymount School in Rockville, a nonpublic special education school.
This article about “specialized nonpublic education” in Montgomery County Maryland highlights the value of private special education outcomes studies and the importance of all private schools taking part in them. Kudos to the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities.
From the article:
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is proposing in the fiscal 2013 budget to increase state funding for nonpublic special education schools to $113.9 million, the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities is preparing to release results of a new study that demonstrates the schools’ effectiveness. The study suggests special education students enrolled in nonpublic schools go on to enroll in secondary education at higher rates, and have a less of a chance of being arrested in the two years after graduating than special education students in public schools.
