Well, yeah, budgets are beginning to affect Special Education decisions, but sometimes this is a good thing. Depending on the local budget structure and parent wishes, some disabled students sit in pull-out classrooms for years that would really benefit from being with their non-disabled peers.
I agree Beckee. A lot of kids can be mainstreamed and it helps both these kids and the regular student body. In my HS my GF volunteered to help with the first year of a mainstreaming pilot there and the results were very positive.
