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Advocates tell State Board Michigan must fix special-education funding and foster‑youth records transfers
Summary
Parents, foster‑youth advocates and disability groups told the Michigan State Board of Education the system still fails students with disabilities and children in foster care, urging the board and state leaders to implement funding reforms and to make the Immediate transfer of records required under federal law a working reality.
Advocates for students with disabilities and young people who have been in foster care urged the Michigan State Board of Education on Feb. 11 to act on funding inequities and to ensure prompt transfer of school records when children change placements.
Heather Eckner, Statewide Director of Education for the Autism Alliance of Michigan, told the board the alliance’s Special Education Experience Survey and an accompanying working paper, Funding Our Future, identify “significant concerns for students with disabilities and their families,” and call for a new, student‑centered special‑education finance framework. “The top priority to address is school funding and resources,” Eckner…
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