In 1980, California instituted a new system for funding special education. Among other things, the system provides increased funding for schools in proportion to the number of students classified with a given disability; and different disabilities are awarded different funding rates.
A. What is likely to happen to the proportion of schoolchildren classified as "disabled" and why?
B. Since the diagnoses of many disabilities are to some extent subjective, how might schools respond to the new education funding system?