Sentences with phrase «efficiency of their special education programs»

The first allows districts to reduce special education spending if they are increasing the efficiency of their special education programs and there is no impact on the provision of special education services to students.

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· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

The number of special loans is great and they are often come from various governmental programs connected with education, home - buying or energy - efficiency.

Key Accomplishments • Successfully implemented an activities based elementary curriculum, resulting in a large number of parents registering their children into the program • Development and implemented a core elementary program, that resulted in increased efficiency in motivating students to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for elementary grade education • Identified a child with special needs within the class, after thoroughly analyzing his personality and limitations, and placed him in an inclusion program • Developed a series lesson plans as part of the elementary teaching program, focusing on students with speech impairments