She is co-founder of Champions for Kids, a former Arizona education department official, and a veteran education advocate who consults with private schools on special education. Too many people think special education services are only for “those” kids in “those” classes with “those” teachers. In Arizona, 67 percent of students receiving special education services spend most of their day in general education classes. Fourteen years later, 19 percent of ESA students have a disability compared with 14 percent of all public school students. This far exceeds the percentage in Arizona’s public schools, where only 12 percent of students receiving special education services have autism.