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Officials warn special-education funding shortfall leaves millions unfunded
Summary
Superintendent Tracy Klinger and finance staff said Gresham-Barlow's special education population exceeds the state-funded threshold, leaving roughly 4 percentage points of eligible students (district >15% vs. funded up to 11%) unfunded and creating a multi-million-dollar gap the district is pressing legislators to address.
At a district budget forum, Gresham-Barlow School District leaders highlighted a mismatch between special education student shares and the state's special education funding thresholds that officials said leaves millions of dollars unfunded.
"We do get additional money for special education up to 11% of our student population. The challenge that we have as a district is our special ed population is over 15%," Superintendent Tracy Klinger said. She and finance…
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