Schools are required to provide educational support for individuals with disabilities. For example autism, down syndrome, mental retardation, etc. If an individual has a mild disability, they may go unidentified in the school system and not receive the help they need, continuing to struggle for the duration of their school years. This can affect their motivation, their self-esteem, and most importantly their ability to obtain a college education. Many people believe that there is a large portion of the prison population that has a learning difficulty/disability of some sort that may have gone undetected. If we identify more of these individuals that fall through the cracks of the education system, we may be able to reduce the crime rate and also lighten the load placed on the prison system. Not only would these statistics potentially go down, but these individual's contributions to society would increase if identified and given the help that they need.
In order to help these individuals, the funding for education in Texas must increase or be subsidized by the federal government. This has always been a problem because Texas is a historically fiscally conservative state, and funding for the school system has always been inadequate. With the current debt the state is in, I doubt the funding for the school system increases very soon, but eventually this problem needs to be taken care of.
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