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IUSD board adopts SELPA 2025-26 local plan and budget amid staffing and funding shortfalls
Summary
The Irvine Unified School District board adopted the SELPA 2025-26 local plan, annual service plan and budget after a staff presentation outlining a persistent federal funding shortfall (federal funding currently about 10% versus the authorized 40%) and program priorities including nonpublic school contracts and parent engagement through the CAC.
The Irvine Unified School District Board voted to adopt the SELPA 2025-26 local plan, annual service plan and annual budget after staff outlined program priorities and a continuing federal funding shortfall.
Jennifer, presenting the SELPA plan, said the federal share of special education funding has never approached the 40% authorized in federal law and is currently about 10% of the SELPA budget. "We receive about $15,000,000 from federal funds, dollars 42,000,000 from state funding, and $91,000,000 from local contribution," she said, summarizing the funding mix and noting that the bulk of expenditures…
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