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Granville County schools review special-education funding, services and staffing amid proposed state changes
Summary
District officials reviewed how federal and proposed state funding changes would affect the Exceptional Children’s (EC) program, explained services and counts used for funding, and outlined steps the district is taking on staffing, behavior supports and parent surveys.
Dr. Suzanne Cotterman, who led an update to the Granville County Public Schools board, summarized how the district provides services to students with disabilities and warned about a pending change to how state funding is calculated.
Cotterman said federal law under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) drives EC services and that Granville serves children from age 3 through age 22. She described a full continuum of services — from home-based instruction for medically fragile students to specialized instruction within general education classrooms. “Parents are a very important member of that IEP team,” Cotterman said.
The EC director told the board that historically the district produced two “child counts” used for funding — a federal count on Dec. 1 and a state count on April 1 — but the Department of Public…
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