D.C.’s special education in distress, official says

District of Columbia special education officials have failed to protect D.C.’s children and Mayor Adrian Fenty’s credibility should rest on whether he can reverse the abuse, the mayor’s top adviser said Wednesday.

“What we have now is a system where we don’t even know where the kids are,” said Peter Nickles, general counsel for Fenty. “I mean, kids move from charter schools to public schools and the records are so screwed up we don’t even know where the kids are.”