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Committee discusses possible audits of local school districts' special education coding; asks LBA to pull DOE ratios
Summary
Committee members debated auditing local school districts' special education coding and agreed to have LBA pull Department of Education (DOE) data on special-education enrollment and spending to identify outliers for possible audits.
Members of the Legislative Budget Assistant committee discussed potential future audit topics and focused substantial attention on special education at the local-school-district level. Lawmakers asked LBA staff to produce a statewide ranking of districts by special-education measures so the committee can select audit targets.
Committee members said existing state audits have not examined local districts in depth and argued that district-level coding and spending could explain volatile special-education costs cited during recent budget reviews. The committee discussed selecting a mix…
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