I feel very privileged to speak with an ally in the legal system, Kevin Brague. He fights for special needs children to get the services they need, as well as protected the civil rights of children in school. He offers insight into how we can engage the community to support schools as well as leveraging teaching aids. We touch on how we can use Medicaid dollars for special education resources, and how we as a society might rethink the segregation between medical and education funding to be, perhaps, shared through a wellness fund. We're both on the same page of integrating medical clinics into the educational buildings to ease the burden on caregiver. We both share the intuition that industrial / factory model of the economy and education is in need of an overhaul, especially given the new evidence of how environment and physiology influences a learners readiness and capacities. We explore how to incentivize bringing in the families and communities.
Public schools fund $8,000 per year per student, and private schools tuition and costs can run as high as $30,000 per student per year. Though consider how much acute medical costs run for people who weren't given adequate life skills?
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Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center with Rose Anderson High School
