Michigan must overhaul ‘inequitable’ way it funds special education, a report finds

Bogdan Hofbauer

Marisa Brizzolara and Arlyssa Heard are both raising sons with disabilities, but their experience getting Michigan public schools to provide legally mandated services couldn’t be more different. Brizzolara’s son got an in-home assessment when her son was a toddler and for years has received the services he needs to help him thrive with autism in a Kent County public school. But 150 miles away in Detroit, Heard’s son faced dismissals of early concerns that anything was wrong, large classrooms

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