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children who live in poverty are more at risk for having a developmental delay. While less than 3.1 percent of children who live in Ward 3 live in poverty, over 40 percent of children who live in Ward 7 and about 50 percent of children who live in Ward 8 live in poverty. Early Stages staff believe that at least 12 percent of children in this age group have a disability or a developmental delay.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. As much as DCPS' special education gets slammed--and rightly so--for being something of a disaster, the obvious conclusion is that the system is completely swamped. A secondary effect of the collapse of special education in DCPS is the downward pressure it puts on DCPS at large, as a burden on financial as well as other resources.

http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/magazine/97268/the-two-year-window?page=0,0&passthru=YzBlNDJmMmRkZTliNDgwZDY4MDhhYmIwMjYyYzhlMjg

Yet another cost of concentrated poverty. Of course, what we usually hear is that DCPS just needs to "get its act together."

I'm curious what percentage of students are considered developmentally delayed (or special ed in general) in the more well-regarded suburban school districts.

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