Why restructure special education?
We continue to hear that special education is extremely tough to control on the local level. We are asking a great deal of our elected officials to try to manage a cost that is often outside their control. These costs have to be spread across the entire system, since one or two special education students can very significantly impact a school budget and therefore impact the local tax rate . particularly when punitive spending penalties kick in. We want to empower communities with the flexibility of local control where the locality has the ability to control spending. But we do not want to burden local communities with those costs that they have limited control over, such as special education.
