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Members of a state House committee have voted to end a two-tiered system that forces the families of children with special needs to jump through hoops that other families are not subjected to when accessing a school-choice program. “We have two very different forms of school choice available for us today,” said state Rep. Chad Caldwell, R-Enid. “If you are a family with a student—with a traditional student—you can access those funds from day one. If you are a family with a special-needs student, you can’t. We make you wait a year. We make you jump through a hoop that we don’t ask our traditional students to do. We are discriminating as a state against our special-needs students.