TY - BOOK AU - Claypool,Mark K. AU - McLaughlin,John M. TI - We're In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education SN - 9781475814491 AV - LC4031 .C595 2015 U1 - 371.90973 PY - 2015/// CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States KW - Public schools -- United States KW - Public-private sector cooperation -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; 1 Today's Public Schools -- 2 Public-Private Partnerships -- 3 Profiles of Private Partners -- 4 Partnering for Students with Special Needs -- 5 Young Children with Autism -- 6 Serving At-Risk Students -- 7 A Trail to the Future -- Contributor Index -- About the Authors N2 - We’re In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nation’s most challenged and challenging students. The book examines variations of use by states as well as the cultural attitudes toward the private sector to address these core functions of public schooling. The book offers grounded and thought provoking perspectives on: the legal framework of PL94-142 and its successor IDEA; the disconnect between the needs of young children with autism and public school special education services; and the significant size of the at-risk population and the shortcomings of efforts to serve those students. Written as qualitative research in the form of ethnographic participant observation, key sources in the literature are cited and four dozen knowledgeable people in positions of significant authority are interviewed on the interface of public education and the private sector in special and at-risk education. A foreword is provided by Barbara Byrd Bennett, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools UR - https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2060525 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2060525 ER -