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Crete Public Schools director outlines special education caseloads, Medicaid reimbursements and system changes
Summary
Director of Student Services Katie Bevins told the Crete Public Schools Board the department served 301 students in special education on the Oct. regular count, highlighted $2.8 million in Medicaid reimbursement for 2023–24 and proposed moving special-education records from SRS to Infinite Campus.
Katie Bevins, director of student services for Crete Public Schools, presented the department’s annual update at the district’s October 2025 regular board meeting, reporting student counts, funding sources and planned system changes.
Bevins told the board the district’s Oct. 1 special-education count was 301 students across kindergarten through young adult programs, with preschool enrollment at 56 and early-intervention (birth–3) enrollment at 25. She said new referrals last school year included 39 overall and 22 for preschool-aged children.
The nut of Bevins’s presentation was funding. She said the district reported $2,800,000 in Medicaid reimbursement for the 2023–24 school year and described that as an approximately 80% reimbursement rate for…
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