Monday Headlines

• Texas looks at voucher bill for students with disabilities. The vouchers would allow students with documented disabilities to attend pubic schools in other districts or private schools.
• Transporting Special Needs Children? It’s EZ with the Roosevelt
• Mother of child shaken by care-worker fights to raise awareness. According to one group, 1,200 to 1,400 babies are hurt or killed due to shaking each year.
  

Hot Topics and Slow Dollars

• Like Molases: Stimulus money is coming, but many districts will have to wait. One Texas district expects to wait months to see the first trickles of a $100 million stream over the next two years.
• Too Hot to Touch: About.com's Special Needs blog spins off an idea from NPR with its list of Ten Toxic Special Needs Topics. On the top of the list of hot-button issues in special needs discussions: peanut bans.
• On that note... NPR also looks at an experiment that takes a bite out of peanut allergies.
  
• The Examined Life: A special needs parent asks if sometimes 'we' coddle special needs children too much. While another parent looks at how best to discipline her special needs teen.