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Stratford superintendent urges board to back state action on special-education costs
Summary
Superintendent Miss Cordes asked the board to sign letters urging state changes to excess-cost funding and oversight of private outplacement charges, and reported related activity at the State Board of Education and legislature.
Superintendent Miss Cordes told the Stratford Board of Education on Monday evening that she has joined other Connecticut superintendents in pressing state leaders to address rapidly rising special-education costs and to add oversight of private outplacement facilities.
Cordes said she co-signed letters with the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPS) and with the Southern Fairfield County Superintendents Group urging the state to fully fund the excess-cost grant and to revise the reimbursement formula. “We’re asking for the state to fully fund excess cost,” Cordes said, and to “put a cap on the amount of what out of district placements…
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