No Surprise

There's been some pretty crazy accusations against Governor Palin. The outrageousness of many of the claims stem from the fact that well, there's nothing there- she's clean as a politician comes and things are having to be made up out of thin air and Obama supporters professional and otherwise had mountains of negative data to use for every likely nominee except Palin, so they're scrambling. I promise you, I would find it sadly hilarious even if I wasn't a supporter.
One claim I'd heard was in spite of having a disabled child she cut funding to special needs students. This was going around in emails. Intuitively, I knew there was absolutely no way this was possible but, didn't know she had in fact increased spending for these children.

"Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years." -LGF

"Advocates for rural and remote schools have lobbied for years for more funding, in particular noting the higher fuel, transportation, and other costs associated with providing education in communities scattered across the vast state." Alaska Dept. Education and Early Development

Governor Palins increased general funding for rural areas will be phased in over a five year period.

Back to the special needs students issue- "A second part of the measure raises spending for students with special needs to $73,840 in fiscal 2011, from the current $26,900 per student in fiscal 2008."- Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.

That's a 175% increase in funding.