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Commission questions oversight after hearing that EFA differentiated aid can be spent flexibly
Summary
Members pressed whether differentiated aid must be spent on disability-related services after CSF said funds are allowable for many educational and therapeutic items and that parents, not the state, may have discretion; commissioners asked DOE for audits and documentation on allowable purchases and returned administrative funds.
Commissioners sought clarity on how differentiated aid is spent when families receive EFA scholarship funds rather than school-district allocated dollars.
Dwayne Ford and others asked whether the approximately $2 million allocated for disabling-condition differentiated aid must be spent on disability-related items. Chair Ladd and CSF’s Matt Southerton stated that when differentiated aid goes to districts it is non-targeted aid…
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