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Sto-Rox director outlines special-education recovery plan, cites $4.6M vendor and $5.8M out-of-district costs
Summary
Director of student services Britney Litsenbiggler told the board the district spends roughly $4.6 million on vendors and student services and about $5.8 million on out-of-district placements; she urged building in-house capacity, described new life-skills and emotional-support classrooms and training programs, and said progress monitoring and a special-education handbook are priorities.
Britney Litsenbiggler, the district's director of student services, told the Sto-Rox School District board on Dec. 4 that the district has increased participation of students with IEPs in state assessments but that proficiency rates remain low, and that the district must change how it delivers special education.
Litsenbiggler gave the board a cost breakdown and recovery-plan goals, saying vendors make up "about $4,600,000 of the budget" for student services, mental health and out-of-district transportation, while out-of-district placements cost about "$5,800,000." She said a priority of the recovery plan is to "evaluate the impact of in house versus out…
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