{"id":24207,"date":"2014-02-20T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/?p=24207"},"modified":"2015-08-23T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T10:26:29","slug":"special-education-students-among-biggest-victims-federal-spending-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/special-education-students-among-biggest-victims-federal-spending-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no one resource more important than our children. Special-education-degree.net has created an infographic entitled \u201cBudget Cut Blues: How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops\u201d detailing how we are leaving our children with special needs behind due to the latest round of budget cuts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, the government has decided to slash funding to many critical education programs for disabled children. 2013\u2019s massive budget cuts, termed the sequestration, has included a 5 percent reduction in federal funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This act impacts education far and wide, meaning disastrous implications for special education programs for those with disabilities.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This infographic goes into detail as to how much has been cut in each state. This cut lowers the amount of money available for funding for children living in poverty, special education, and Head Start programs, ballooning class sizes, elimination of after-school programs, and decimation of programs for homeless students, English language learners and high-poverty, struggling schools. There\u2019s also been cuts to financial aid for college students.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This also effects those that work in education, costing tens of thousands of education jobs\u2014at early childhood, elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels.<\/div>\n<div><b>Budget Cut Blues: How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/special-ed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/special-ed.jpg\" alt=\"special-ed\" width=\"800\" height=\"4198\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/special-ed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/special-ed-700x3673.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no one resource more important than our children. Special-education-degree.net has created an infographic entitled \u201cBudget Cut Blues: How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops\u201d detailing how we are leaving our children with special needs behind due to the latest round of budget cuts. Unfortunately, the government has&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/special-education-students-among-biggest-victims-federal-spending-drops\/\" title=\"How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Special Education Students Are Among the Biggest Victims of Federal Spending Drops<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1952],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}