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Board highlights OWL in‑district special‑education program as a cost‑effective alternative to BOCES placements
Summary
At the March 24 workshop, district staff said OWL in‑district special‑education programs reduce external tuition costs and support student outcomes: Freeman showed an example where replacing BOCES placements with OWL would avoid roughly $6.4 million in external tuition and carry an internal cost of about $2.5 million, a net budget advantage of about $3 million.
Webster Central School District officials used the March 24 budget workshop to review the OWL in‑district special‑education program and its fiscal and educational trade‑offs.
Mister Freeman presented student counts across three OWL levels (23, 16, 15 in one example) and average BOCES tuition estimates per placement. He said that, in an illustrative scenario, moving…
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