The Co-op offers a solution, based on sound actuarial principles, to the challenges districts and communities across Connecticut face every day by
aggregating special education costs together at the state level to ensure predictable, stable funding for special education services — even during financially uncertain times — while keeping decisions and delivery of those services local.
The Co-op is able to achieve these goals by
aggregating special education costs together at the state level to leverage the fact that, on a statewide basis, special education costs are predictable, even though they are frequently volatile at the district level.
Not exact matches
As I've pointed out before, the trick to writing an article blaming
special education is to mention a high
cost for educating certain
special education students (or even a high - sounding
aggregate figure) without putting in perspective how much money that is relative to the entire school budget.
Aggregating these
costs together creates greater predictability in
special education costs for districts and municipalities.