See what Spectrum K-12 said about special education in MCPS in April of 2009, in regards to the report on the closure of the Secondary Learning Centers. The follow quote and the link above is to the spectrum k-12 blog.
"The audit also showed that only about 25% of the teachers were actually providing differentiated instruction to the inclusion students. And a mandatory training for teachers that would be working with these inclusion students was only attended by about 50% of the staff. These numbers are more alarming to me."
Do you think maybe this had something to do with why MCPS dropped their Encore product? Or was it just, as MCPS says, the product didn't do what it was supposed to do?