文档介绍：Special Education Expenditure Project
What Are We Spending on Special Education Services in the United States, 1999-2000?
Report 02-01
March 2002
Prepared by: Jay G. Chambers
Thomas B. Parrish
Jenifer J. Harr
Submitted to: United States Department of Education,
Office of Special Education Programs
Updated November 2002
This study was funded by the . Department of Education under Contract Number ED99CO0091. The contents of this report do not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the Department of Education.
About the authors:
Jay G. Chambers is the Project Director for the Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP). Dr. Chambers is also a Senior Research Fellow and a Managing Director of the Business mittee on Economic Indicators and Education Finance within the Education Program at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). He is also a member of the President’mission on Excellence in Special Education and served on the Task Force on Finance and on Systems Administration. Dr. Chambers is currently President of the American Education Finance Association and a consulting professor at Stanford University’s School of Education. He is a nationally recognized expert in school finance and educational cost analysis.
Thomas B. Parrish is the Director of the Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF). Dr. Parrish is also Deputy Director of the Education Program at AIR. Dr. Parrish specializes in education policy, with special expertise in analyzing the costs of, and fiscal policies for, special education programs. He has appeared before numerous legislative bodies and written extensively on issues relating to special education finance and state funding formulas.
Jenifer J. Harr is a Research Scientist in the Education Program at AIR and co-editor of the series of SEEP Reports. Dr. Harr earned a doctorate in education with an emphasis in special education from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has served as associate director for a state evaluat