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Ways & Means committee adopts amendment replacing special education labels with category system; developmental delay added to mid-cost group
Summary
The committee approved an amendment to H.454 that removes stigmatizing labels for special education cost categories, replacing them with categories A, B and C; it also adds developmental delay to Category B and updates the weight used for cost estimates. The committee reported a recorded tally of 10–0–1.
Representative Theresa Wood offered an amendment to H.454 that replaces language describing students with special education or disabilities as “high cost” with a neutral category system (Category A, B and C) and aligns the bill’s categories with Agency of Education classifications.
Wood said the change is intended to reduce stigma and to mirror prior work that recategorized…
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