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In response to my story this morning on how Gov. Sarah Palin couches her discussion of special-needs children in anti-abortion rights language, several readers have pointed out that Palin’s record as governor of Alaska isn’t as stellar on the issue as she has trumpeted. Tha
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She seems totally ignorant (and even sarcastic) about science. Her support for special needs is superficial at best.
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Guess Gov Palin knows a bit more than you about sciene.
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or are facts to difficult for you process?
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Wait until her special child gets older and wants to swim, run, or play basketball, and see if see cuts the money then. My guess is that she cut the money before she had her son, and now that the table has turned, things are different.
Wonder how she would feel if her daughter was raped by a relative and was going to die if she did not lose the fetus due to a medical complication. I wonder if she would then pick life over her daughter's life.
I wonder if her husband had early onset alzheimers, and she had no money for nursing care, if she would be so quick to veto stem cell research. Even strong conservatives like Orin Hatch support Stem Cell research.
Please support our special children!!!
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During her speech Palin said, "as governor, I've succeeded in securing additional funding and assistance for students with special needs. By 2011, I will have tripled the funding available to these students."
That appears to be the case.
Overall funding for special needs students has increased every year since Sarah Palin entered office as governor. Palin increased the amount from $219 million in 2007 to a projected $276 million in 2009.
In March, Palin signed a bill that will nearly triple per-pupil funding over three years for special needs students with high-cost requirements.
The per-pupil funding grew in Alaska under Palin's administration from $26,900 in fiscal year 2008 to $73,840 devoted to fiscal year 2011.
Palin has also directed state funds to other special needs programs.This funding includes $500,000 for diagnostic services for autistic children and $250,000 for training in early autism intervention in her fiscal year 2009 budget.
In an April interview with Education Week the executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards called the new funding a "historic event."
Carl Rose "praised the changes in funding for rural schools and students with special needs as a 'historic event,' and said the finance overhaul would bring more stability to district budgets," the publication reported.
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She appears to me as an ambitous opportunist.
The Republicans need to get a new face for their party or they are really going to marginalize themselves.
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