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North Dakota DPI provides state special‑education counts, cautions against funding by placement or disability
Summary
North Dakota Department of Public Instruction staff presented updated counts of students with disabilities (public, parentally placed private, home‑educated) and warned that federal IDEA and LRE rules limit funding models that would incentivize placement in more restrictive settings or allocate funds strictly by disability category.
Mary McCarville O'Connor, director of specialty design services at the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, presented the committee with updated counts and data caveats about students with disabilities in North Dakota public schools, parentally placed private schools and home‑educated populations.
DPI staff emphasized a key legal and policy constraint: federal IDEA and related regulations bar states from structuring funding to incentivize more‑restrictive placements or…
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