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New Hampshire's Disabled Student Dropout Rate
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  A new national report underlines a troubling trend- large numbers of disabled students who drop out of school. Even more troubling, the study lists the Granite State near the bottom of the class. We’ll explore these new numbers...why they stubbornly persist...and the debate over what should be done. Guests
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The performance of children with disabilities does not mirror the potential of learning for a majority of the 31,399 children with disabilities in NH between ages of (3-21). Most of the students are not significantly cognitively disabled according to the NH Dept. of Education numbers for December 2006.
Look at the categories, they speak for themselves:
41.4 % Specific Learning Disability
19.2 % Speech/Language
15.4% Other Health Impaired
8.0% Emotional Disturbance
So have we just set low expectations systemically? How will the local and state educators aggressively address this? It starts in the schools with the level of instruction and expectations of these children and follows with strong data accountability at both the state and local levels.