Greg Forster is a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. Jay Greene is the endowed professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
It's time for parents on the front lines of the special education wars to recognize that schools have a financial incentive to diagnose students and then not serve them.
Many kids are unjustifiably tagged as disabled when their schools get a financial "bounty" for every diagnosis.