As the World Turns.

People who teach autistic children need to have some training, but most don't have the specialized training.

However, if you are throwing Asperger's and other high-functioning autistics in with the low-functioning ones, teachers don't need much in the way of specialized instruction.
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I figured the "empowerment schools" movement was nothing but a right-wing scam promoted by business interests in order to wreck public education.

Of course, Nevada's elected Democrats aren't smart enough to realize it's a scam.

More here. The testing component gives the whole scam away.

And here is another article.
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Representative Nick Lampson of Texas, the person who took Tom DeLay's seat after the scoundrel was forced to resign, was hospitalized for heart surgery.
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Chaz Higgs, accused killer of his wife, the late state controller Kathy Augustine, is free on bail.
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