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Duluth officials ask Legislature to correct 2016 special‑education funding error
Summary
Superintendent John Magus and Duluth school board member Jill Lofeld told the committee Senate File 1594 seeks to correct a Department of Education billing anomaly that left Duluth Public Schools with a multi‑million dollar special‑education funding shortfall. The committee laid the bill over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.
Superintendent John Magus and school board member Jill Lofeld of Duluth Public Schools told the Minnesota Senate Education Finance Committee on Feb. 26 that Senate File 1594 would correct a multiyear funding shortfall in special education that the district says stems from a state billing anomaly in 2016.
Magus said the district traced a funding gap of roughly $5.8 million to a 2016 calculation error acknowledged by the Minnesota Department of Education. “That shortfall stems from that critical error that was made by the Minnesota Department of Education... between fiscal year 2016 and 2019,…
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