Figure 1: Population Overlap Difficult-to-educate students defy simple definition. Considerable overlap exists among the special education, at-risk, and adjudicated youth categories used in this report. For example, many students who have been adjudicated by the courts have also been identified as having emotional disturbance and therefore qualify for special education under federal law.
Source: Seventeenth Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of IDEA, Juvenile Offender and Victims |