re: Baltimore city schools (highest per pupil spending in nation) shut down due to no heat

There is no doubt that is a shite hole. My question is, how much of their money is dedicated solely to special education. If one student has a teacher, an aide, an “adaptive PE teacher, a special education case worker, their own physical classroom, and a nurse...then that is quite a few pennies tied up in the educational “needs” of that one child. Let’s say the child is in a vegetative state, exactly what is the goal. While dumbocrats are the typical culprits, the redumblican mantra of “no child left behind” has a hand in this nonsense as well.