{"id":4523,"date":"2011-02-28T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:46:40","slug":"funding-a-sorry-state-of-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/funding-a-sorry-state-of-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Ed Funding: A Sorry State of Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Special%20Ed%20Funding%3A%20A%20Sorry%20State%20of%20Affairs\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>As a therapist, I often run into the challenges to get the children and adolescents the services that they need.\u00a0 How do you in times of limited budgets, get the funding needed for IEP and the services that go along with special education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/money.sign.grn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"73\" \/>In a nutshell, in good times and hard times, schools always claim they are &#8220;cash strapped.&#8221; This has gone on for so long &#8211; decades &#8211; that people don&#8217;t question it. Less than two years ago, the feds provided a huge infusion of federal funds to education AND special education, and increased the amount of federal funding long term.<\/p>\n<p>Some states have refused the funds.<!--more--> Others have left the money in the pot, saying they MAY withdraw it later. The feds require states and school districts to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> use the funds for designated purposes and\/or<\/li>\n<li>account for how they spend the money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because some schools don&#8217;t want to comply with the accounting requirements,\u00a0 they are not inclined to withdraw the funds.<\/p>\n<p>During the boom,\u00a0 because teachers had to buy supplies for their students, Congress added a tax exemption for these expenses. The situation is bizarre.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long ago, I wrote a post on this topic.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4242\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When Cash Strapped School Districts Sing the Blues<\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4242\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=4242<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you scroll down to the comments after the post, you&#8217;ll find this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go to the US DOE\u2019s website and do a search for the name of your state superintendent and find the IDEA grant award letter for your state. We could educate entire third world countries for the money they get\u2026..we are talking about BILLIONS of dollars PER STATE per year!<br \/>\nAccording to this link this state, is getting, \u201c$11,505,211,000 appropriated for Section 611 in FFY 2010\u2033 <strong>YEP, it is BILLION!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nHere is the link to this state\u2019s award letter, parents be prepared to be FLOORED:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/fund\/data\/award\/idea\/2010partb\/sc-letter-2010b.doc\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/fund\/data\/award\/idea\/2010partb\/sc-letter-2010b.doc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the letter SusanB posted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount in your award for Section 619 represents the full amount of funds to which you are entitled. However, the amount shown in your award for the Section 611 program is only part of the total funds that will be awarded to you for FFY 2010. Of the $11,505,211,000 appropriated for Section 611 in FFY 2010, $2,912,828,000 is available for awards on July 1, 2010, and $8,592,383,000 will be available for awards on October 1, 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>So much for the cash-strapped, \u201cunfunded mandate\u201d excuse for not educating children with disabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Where Is the Money Going?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After SusanB posted this link, a SLP added a comment about her request for supplies &#8211; no money, yet the district is getting many thousands of dollars per child. She wondered &#8220;where the money is going?&#8221;\u00a0 Good question. It isn&#8217;t going to the students or teachers.<\/p>\n<p>If you hunt in the DOE site, you can find the letter that describes federal funding for your state. <strong>Prepare to be shocked.<\/strong> This is a sorry state of affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a therapist, I often run into the challenges to get the children and adolescents the services that they need.\u00a0 How do you in times of limited budgets, get the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/funding-a-sorry-state-of-affairs\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,5,1364],"tags":[702,703],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-idea-2004","category-school-administration-school-culture","tag-allocating-funds","tag-school-budgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}