The Department of Education has announced this week that it will hand off the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, known to insiders as OSERS, to the Department of Health and Human Services. OSERS oversees about $15.5 billion in funding for early intervention and K-12 special education services. That money pays for speech therapists, classroom aides, and the IEP coordinators who keep schools out of court. It now belongs to an agency that has never administ