Sentences with phrase «cover special education costs»

HARRISBURG — It's been six years since the state Legislature gave school districts more money to cover special education costs.

The state and federal government give funds to school districts intended solely to cover special education costs.

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Dozens of workshops covered a range of issues, including the impact of the State budget on counties, pension funding, renewable energy, local Medicaid costs, public safety, budgeting, pre-school special education reforms, shared services, and local leadership.

«As long as childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social services.

Experts have been calling for wholesale reform of this field; it is common for them to assert that special education costs too much because it covers too many young people.

Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a complaint last year against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabilities.

One district submitted testimony that it has to transfer 13 percent of its general fund (Fund 10) each year to cover its unreimbursed special education (Fund 27) costs.

«Over the past several years, a combination of increasing special education costs and relatively flat state and federal special education funding has resulted in local budgets covering an increasing share of these costs,» the LAO wrote in a report on special education in California.

Last year, the state provided $ 743 per student — disabled and otherwise at charters and traditional schools — for special education services, which covered only 54 % of L.A. Unified's special education costs.