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New Haven briefed on rising special-education costs as out-of-district placements grow
Summary
District staff told the Finance & Operations Committee that a rise in students needing highly specialized programming and increasing tuition and transportation for out-of-district placements are driving major special-education costs; the district is expanding in-district programs to reduce vendor tuition spending.
Miss Jasmine Jackson, the district’s special-education lead, told the Finance & Operations Committee that the district is seeing a meaningful rise in students requiring highly specialized programming and that tuition and transportation for out-of-district placements are the program’s largest cost drivers. “As of 03/11, we had 61 students who have come into our district” needing specialized services, Jackson said, and the number of students in out-of-district placements rose from 278 to 292.
Jackson said the district now counts about 312 students who require specialized programming and that some recent inflows of students have strained the budget. She noted one example from earlier this year:…
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