Many experts say it is harmful to isolate children with disabilities. Nationally, however, public districts paid for about 166,000 students with disabilities to attend segregated schools.
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Willingham said 43% of children in Porter County have been identified as having some kind of disability. Across Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties, that’s 100,000 children, he said.
"East Porter (School Corp.) is sincerely apologetic that this incident has taken place," Superintendent Aaron Case said in an email to The Times. The child was found safe in a