[Local-Maine-Schools] LD 1041 Today: Special Ed Cuts (Dick Gould)

[Dick Atlee]

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Subject: 	LD 1041
Date: 	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:19 -0400
From: 	RICHARD GOULD <perf3170rag at verizon.net>

  HI
     LD1041 is being discussed in worksession in the ed com. today.  I
plan to be there.  There is an amendment that I missed, but Judy Sproule
found it so here it is.  It reduces the amount min. receivers get.
Dick


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*LR 785*
Item 2

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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and
inserting the following:

‘Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15689, sub-§1, ¶B,  as affected by PL 2005, c. 12,
Pt. WW, §18 and amended by c. 457, Pt. I, §1, is further amended to read:

B.  The school administrative unit's special education costs as
calculated pursuant to section 15681-A, subsection 2 multiplied by the
following transition percentages:

(1) In fiscal year 2005-06, 84%;

(2) In fiscal year 2006-07, 84%;

(3) In fiscal year 2007-08, 95%; and

(4) In fiscal year 2008-09 and succeeding years, [struck: 100%] 50%.

Summary

This amendment is the majority report of the Joint Standing Committee on
Education and Cultural Affairs. The amendment strikes and replaces the
concept draft to reduce the percentage of special education costs that
may be allocated to a school administrative unit that is determined to
be a so-called "minimum receiver" of state subsidy under the Essential
Programs and Services Funding Act.

Current law provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2008-09 and
succeeding years, a school administrative unit that is a so-called
"minimum receiver" of state subsidy is guaranteed a minimum of 5% of the
school administrative unit's total allocation or 100% of the school
administrative unit's special education costs, whichever amount is
greater. The amendment provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2008-09
and succeeding years, the percentage of special education costs that may
be allocated to a school administrative unit that is determined to be a
so-called "minimum receiver" of state subsidy is 50%.