China News Service, April 27. According to a comprehensive compilation report by the US "World Journal", one of the achievements of the team of former New York City mayor de Blasio is "the popularization of preschool education", which provides free preschool classes for four-year-old children. The city expanded to three-year-olds, but the survey found that the program did not properly care for disabled students, there were racial disparities, and minorities such as Asians were less likely to be served than whites.
Advocates for Children, a non-profit organization that advocates for children's rights, recently released its 2019-2020 urban data analysis report, exploring how the preschool popularization program provides education to more than 30,000 disabled preschool students in the city.
The results showed that African Americans and Asian Americans were less likely to be served than whites; African Americans and Latinos were more likely to be placed in segregated classrooms, even when they received services.
About one-third of pre-school children do not receive all statutory services.
Education bureau officials said the former government team allocated $22 million to preschool special education to increase seating, enhance services and expand inclusive classroom settings.
The survey found four major problems, mostly related to racial discrimination.
For special education, whites are more likely to receive special education than other ethnic groups.
Among the preschool students in the city, less than 20% of the whites received special education, but more than 37% of them received special education. This phenomenon is opposite to that of K-12 (K-12).
Are the needs of special education for people of color being overestimated or underestimated?
Controversial.
Fighting for special education for preschool children is time-consuming and detrimental to families with insufficient resources.
Harrington, a white Brooklyn father, sought special education for his son, spent five months formulating an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), still full of uncertainty, and finally asked for another smart, exhausted, and he was more concerned about a white family with a flexible living schedule. Favorably, it's no wonder that whites receive special education at a disproportionately high rate.
For segregated classroom arrangements, most African-American and Latino students with individualized education plans are referred to segregated classrooms, as are nearly half of Asian-American students with disabilities, compared with only 30 percent of whites.
In addition, at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, approximately 34% of students with disabilities did not receive all planned services, and more than 10,300 students were not placed in appropriate special education classrooms; approximately 39% of preschool children who were referred to special education itinerant teachers (SEITs) About 2,661 people were never instructed, and African Americans and Latinos were instructed at a lower rate than whites.
The placement of many disabled students in segregated classrooms is another issue.
About 43 percent of preschool children with disabilities are referred to disability-segregated classrooms, an issue that has received attention from state education officials, but rates remain high.
New York State's goal is to drop to 18%.
(Zhou Fangyuan)