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This paper deals with the negotiation process deciding the institutional organization of vocational special needs education and training in Finland. Traditionally, the state has been a strong actor in organizing vocational special needs education in Finland. At the beginning of 2009, however, all five state-maintained vocational special schools were administratively merged with vocational special schools of non-governmental not-for-profit organizations. The article focuses on research that has documented the change process in three former state schools by visiting the schools, gathering ethnographic data and interviewing the head teachers about the process.