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Board hears rising special-education caseload, cautions on limited high-cost reimbursements
Summary
At a presentation to the North Santiam SD 29J board, district special-programs staff reported 399 students on IEPs as of Dec. 1, 2025 and described how the state's $55 million high-cost reimbursement pot and a $30,000-per-student threshold leave districts with volatile and often small reimbursements for very expensive cases.
Miss Glover, the district's special-programs lead, told the board the Special Education Child Count (SECC) is a point-in-time census taken on Dec. 1 that drives federal and state funding and reporting. "As of December 1, at this point in time, we had 399 students on IEPs," she said, noting that figure was up from 387 the prior year.
Glover walked the board through why that matters for budgeting. She described the state's high-cost disability reimbursement program as a reimbursement pool of $55,000,000 with a per-student…
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