Special Education School Closings

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/nj_to_close_schools_for_disabl.html

This is an article about a decision in April to close 18 state-run Special Education Schools, which provided services for students with disabilities and troubled kids, throughout New Jersey by the end of June, 2010, relocating the students to local district schools.

The main issue, as brought out in the article, is that these students were sent to these special schools because their local districts could not accommodate them. But given what we're learning about urban education, I have to wonder: what of the students that are relocated to urban schools? How well are the Special Education services in Newark and Trenton (two cities whose Special Education campuses will be closing) prepared to handle this situation? Special Education in urban schools was something I considered doing my final project on, and this ongoing story is definitely one of the reasons.