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Residents urge scrutiny of special-education spending and warn of rising tax burden
Summary
Two residents used the meeting's public audience to criticize the growth of special-education spending and to call attention to high school-district salaries and recent tax increases in Simsbury.
Two residents addressed the meeting during the public-audience period to raise concerns about school spending and the distribution of local tax increases.
Joan Coe, who identified herself as a taxpayer and gave a Simsbury address, said special education has grown into an industry of providers and argued that the town's special-education spending has escalated without sufficient changes to delivery models. "Throwing money at a failed system is not a taxpayer's responsibility to keep funding special education without any changes in the delivery of services to reduce costs," Coe said, and urged taxpayers…
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