How a billion-dollar corporation exploits Washington’s special education system
Universal Health Services collected more than $38 million in tax dollars for special education services that families and former teachers say it largely didn’t provide.
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King County proposed mental health study on students after insisting it wasn’t doing research
King County officials have insisted that a program to screen schoolkids for mental health isn't conducting research on them. But they have quietly been laying...