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CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MAY GET BACK PAY FOR SPECIAL ED.
September 24, 1999
The state of California is on the verge of agreeing to repay California schools for $1.6 billion in special education expenses they accrued over the past 19 years. After several school districts filed so-called "test claims" to retrieve money they spent from general education funds on services for students with disabilities. The effort to win back some of that money was spearheaded by the California School Boards Association, which called the repayment a "constitutional obligation" the state has to school districts because the special ed. services were mandated by state law.
The alleged debt is still under consideration by the California Commission on State Mandates, which met last week to discuss a plan for allowing school districts to claim the money they are due. The commission did not, however, approve the framework it examined at the meeting, opting to put the plan before the public in a public hearing slated for Oct. 28. According to the school board group, which represents nearly 1,000 K-12 school districts and county offices of education, claims from individual school districts and county offices would be due about six months after the mandates commission issues its rules. 8
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