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Special Education Funding Issues
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GSCS Bar Chart: Statewide Special Education cost percent compared to Regular & Other Instructional cost percent 2004-2011 -
11-18-10 Proposed Somerset County school for special ed students would include convenience store -
Special Education Series - Asbury Park Press 'Special Care-Unkown Costs' -
GSCS - High costs of Special Education must be addressed asap, & appropriately -
9-23-09 'Tests changing for special ed students' -
7-22-09 'State gives extra aid for schools an extraordinary boost' -
6-26-09 Executive Director to GSCS Trustees; Wrap Up Report - State Budget and Assembly bills this week -
6-24-09 U.S. Supreme Court backs reimbursement for private tuition -
090416 DOE RELEASE - IDEA ALLOCATIONS -
NJ District listing, Title One & IDEA under federal stimulus law -
12-29-08 NJ to new leaders - Fund our schools -
OCT 7 FORUM - DIRECTIONS & PARKING INFO ATTACHED -
OCT 7 FORUM - DIRECTIONS ATTACHED; PARKING FORMS TO BE AVAILABLE HERE SOON! -
GSCS, Special Education Coalition for Funding Reform, and Rutgers Institute co-sponsor Forum Oct 7th -
SAVE THE DATE - OCT. 7TH -
May 29 2008 STATE FUNDING FOR EXTRAORDINARY COST -
GSCS School Funding Paper 'Funding NJ's Schools...Finding a Workable Solution' distributed 10-22-07 at Press Conf in Trenton -
UPDATED - Possible Spec. Educ. Aid Loss to districts (based on current aid per current, yet outdated by 6 years, CEIFA distribution) if state chooses to 'wealth-equalize' this aid in a future formula -
10-23 Media reports & Trenton responses to date re GSCS Press Conf -
Spec. Educ. Aid Loss to districts (based on current aid per current, yet outdated by 6 years, CEIFA distribution) if state chooses to 'wealth-equalize' this aid in a future formula -
11-1-06 Press Conference packet -
9-20-07 New Jersey School Boards Assoc. Releases its Report on Special Education -
7-26-07 Council on Local Mandates reverses DOE spec ed regulation -
6-29-07 Lots of news affecting NJ, its schools and communities this week - STATE BUDGET signed - LIST OF LINE ITEM VETOES - US SUPREME CT RULING impacts school desgregation - SPECIAL EDUCATION GROUPS file suit against state -
Special Education Review Commission Report submitted April 2007 -
Special Education - proposed 'burden of proof' legislation, Spec Educ Review Commission Report -
2-15-07 'Parents get boost on special ed rights' Star Ledger -
8-17-06 Special Education costs & Constitutional Questions re Tax Reform -
6-29-06 Mirroring the elements, State Budget looking like a 'natural disaster' -
6-12-06 EMAILNET - Extraordinary Special Education student aid; FY07 Budget 'crunch' is on; news clips -
5-16-06 EMAILNET Action in Trenton -
3-22-06 EMAILNET Governor Corzine's Budget Message -
1-19-06 GSCS member concerns re Proposed Revisions in Special Education Code -
Charts Spec Ed & Health Benefits increases v Local Levy since CEIFA has been frozen -
CHART: Health Benefits & Special Educ v.local levy FY02 to FY06 (pdf) -
2-28-06 Dept of Education Spec Educ Rules -
1-19-06 New Jersey Assoc of School Adminstrators on Sped Educ code revisions -
Proposed State Budget for Fiscal Year 2006 - GSCS Testimony -
Statewide - Special Educ & Total Enrollment Growth Chart 2001-2004[gscs] -
Special Education Enrollments 2003 statewide by DFG -
GSCS Testimony 2003 on Suggestions for School Funding - issues similar to 2005-6
