Read this 🧵 on a boarding school for autistic youth that can cost nearly $600k/year but has zero state oversight 👇👇

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A must-read 🧵from Jodi Cohen of ProPublica on her investigation with Jennifer Smith Richards of a New York school for students with autism that operates with almost no oversight.

1/ Earlier this year, while reporting on Shrub Oak School, Jennifer Smith Richards and I went to NJ to meet Ellen & Russ Ashinoff, whose son had been a student there.

They pulled Brett from the boarding school for students w/autism after they said they saw signs he'd been mistreated.

New: No state agency has authority over Shrub Oak, one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding schools. As a result, parents and staff have nowhere to report bruised students and medication mix-ups. propub.li/4b7Vub1

A private, for-profit nightmare that receives public school money, and has no oversight.

NEW (AND SHOCKING): It costs close to $600,000 for students with autism to attend Shrub Oak International School. Yet no government agency performs oversight. Brilliant reporting from Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi Cohen of ProPublica.

propublica.org/article/shrub-…

New: This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered. propub.li/3QDDUng

A year at Shrub Oak International School can cost $573,200 -- usually paid for by taxpayers.

Yet this private, for-profit school in NY operates w/o state oversight. Young people from 13 states are currently there.

Our new investigation out today: propublica.org/article/shrub-…

The Boy’s dad, a physician said he tried to report suspected abuse to several agencies in New York. The attorney general’s office referred him to the New York State Education Department. propublica.org/article/shrub-…

Must read! This School for Autistic Youth Can Cost $573,200 a Year. It Operates With Little Oversight, and Students Have Suffered.
propublica.org/article/shrub-… Jennifer Smith Richards Jodi Cohen

New: No state agency has authority over Shrub Oak, one of the country's most expensive therapeutic boarding schools. As a result, parents and staff have nowhere to report bruised students and medication mix-ups. propub.li/4b7Vub1

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