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Parents and local officials urge state to fund special education; callers ask board to pass resolutions
Summary
Speakers during public comment told the State Board the state must honor constitutional obligations to fund special education, and multiple witnesses urged the board to adopt resolutions documenting insufficiency of appropriations and to press the governor for emergency stabilization funding.
During the April 1 public comment period, several speakers urged the Connecticut State Board of Education to publicly document perceived state underfunding of core special education and ECS obligations and to press the governor and Legislature for emergency State support.
Joseph Sakalavic, who said he appears in an individual capacity with nine years' local board experience, told the board that federal civil‑rights law, IDEA and the Connecticut…
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