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Senate panel demands documents, probes high costs and monitoring of private special-education contracts
Summary
The commission examined the departments use of purchase-of-service contracts for special-education placements, highlighted contracts costing hundreds of thousands per student, and ordered the COMPU membership list, monitoring-unit instruments and five years of monitoring reports within five days.
During the second half of the Sept. 11 hearing, the commission shifted to the departments contracting for private special-education services and the monitoring of contracted providers.
Department officials said that in the 202324 school year 2,270 students were served via purchase-of-service mechanisms and that 159 providers were contracted to deliver services, with the departments total investment in such contracts disclosed in testimony as more than $100 million. Officials described how parents often raise proposed placements at the COMPU (programming and placement committee), and that the committees…
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