Economic reason you should care about food insecurity in your school district, state and country: Case Study: Special Education Food insecurity increases the likelihood that a child will be judged to need special educational services; at the worst end of the spectrum, children who are not only food insecure but are classified as hungry are twice as likely as those who are not hungry to be receiving special education services, and twice as likely to have repeated a grade.168 According to the U.S. Department of Education, special education services cost an extra $5,918 per pupil in school-year 1999-2000. As the national average per pupil cost of public education is around $6,800 (fiscal year 2001), the additional cost of special education services brings the total cost of educating a special needs child to nearly double the annual expenditure for a child without special needs.169 Once they begin to receive special education, children typically stay within the special needs system for the remainder of their school career, so the nearly $6,000 additional cost accrues annually until they leave the school system. For a special-needs kindergartener, then, progress through the eighth grade alone represents approximately $54,000 in additional expenditures on the part of the school system, and indirectly, on the part of the taxpayer. ©2009 Feeding America. All rights reserved. Feeding America is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit recognized by the IRS
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