Jeremiah Smith said "Now, if you add up all of those thousands and thousands of dollars and you end up with a total in excess of $1 million, if you are a teacher or an administrator or a private citizen thinking of your own school district, you might ask ``How many teachers, how many textbooks, how much infrastructure could you provide for $330,000?'' We have an adverse reaction around here when we try to get anything done to knock any attorneys out of a dollar or two. There was a Washington Post story recently quoting lawyers bragging--and I will not cite names here, I do not think that is important--but there was a law firm in the city that got $2.4 million, according to school budget records, just on special education, just on this law. In fact, one person was quoted as saying, ``Winning those cases is like taking candy from a baby.''" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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Now, if you add up all of those thousands and thousands of dollars and you end up with a total in excess of $1 million, if you are a teacher or an administrator or a private citizen thinking of your own school district, you might ask ``How many teachers, how many textbooks, how much infrastructure could you provide for $330,000?'' We have an adverse reaction around here when we try to get anything done to knock any attorneys out of a dollar or two. There was a Washington Post story recently quoting lawyers bragging--and I will not cite names here, I do not think that is important--but there was a law firm in the city that got $2.4 million, according to school budget records, just on special education, just on this law. In fact, one person was quoted as saying, ``Winning those cases is like taking candy from a baby.''

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Jeremiah Smith

Federalist · New Hampshire

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the high litigation costs in school districts related to special education.

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