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Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored

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Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored

www.propublica.org

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News@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

A state law was meant to help families by allowing the use of public money to fund students’ tuition at special education boarding schools around the country. But in solving one problem, lawmakers created another.

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I’ve just spent the last 3 days reading this off of your rec. It’s… wild. And then to follow it up by seeing this is just… too weird.
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  Oh yeah it’s long. I was aghast the whole time, I’m pretty sure I’d be seriously fucked up more than I am now if I went to such a place.

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