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Spectrum Academy warns rule implementation would cut its special‑education add‑on by an estimated $8.2M and imperil planned expansion
Summary
Spectrum Academy officials told the finance committee that applying proposed special‑education add‑on ratio caps to an approved St. George expansion would reduce their special‑education add‑on WPUs from 3,564 to 1,863, a projected $8.24 million shortfall that the school said would be existential to expansion plans.
Officials from Spectrum Academy told the Utah State Board of Education finance committee that a pending rule (R277‑479) intended to right‑size special‑education add‑on WPUs would deeply affect the high‑prevalence charter if applied to an approved expansion.
Courtney England, Spectrum’s finance director, said that under the rule as written an expanding Spectrum campus would…
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