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Private, Public, and Funding. Each state is completely different. I know California on this very well.
In CA, no additional funds are given to public schools for student accomodation. In fact, the incentive is the opposite: a student can attempt to get an IEP, Individual Education Plan, to address special needs. Once the IEP is accepted, the school is responsible for following the plan, even if it means paying a private school to meet the needs.
Well, the schools set up an elaborate gatekeeping system to agressively avoid IEPs. Basically, the student has to fail out of school before any IEP can be implemented.
We had a solid diagnosis from the Children's Health Council at Stanford University from an inter-displinary team of 4 professionals. It was in the Autism spectrum towards Non-Verbal Learning Disorder. A very smart student getting by with a C average is not good enough for an IEP; he would have to fail out of school to get an IEP.
My wife and I fought with the public schools for an IEP and got nowhere. We had no choice but to send him to a private school with 10 students per class and training in special needs students.
In the SF Bay Area the private schools are much better at handling all kinds of students. Private high schools here are more expensive than Yale and Harvard, but they do the proper job. At $20K a year tuition, rarely is a student a burden.
California public schools rank 49th in the nation just ahead of wealthy Mississippi.
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