{"id":2884,"date":"2022-10-12T22:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:02:49","slug":"survival-coalition-supports-new-report-findings-that-wi-underfunds-special-education-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/2022\/updates\/survival-coalition-supports-new-report-findings-that-wi-underfunds-special-education-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Coalition Supports New Report Findings that WI Underfunds Special Education (Press release)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Survival Coalition of more than 20 statewide disability organizations agrees with a new report from the Education Law Center concluding that \u201cWisconsin\u2019s low reimbursement rate for special education will leave school districts on the hook for\u00a0<strong>$1.25 billion,<\/strong>\u00a0forcing them to divert funds intended for general education for all students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Findings from the report showed that in the 2019-2020 school year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wisconsin schools reported their special education costs were $1.82 billion to support the state\u2019s 120,000 students with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After factoring in the state special education reimbursement and funds available through the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),&nbsp;<strong>schools were facing a $1.25 billion shortfall<\/strong>&nbsp;from unfunded special education costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wisconsin &nbsp;special education programs are underfunded, with the impact being greatest&nbsp; on districts with high-poverty rates and often concurrent higher enrollments in special education. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survival Coalition supports additional special education investment in the 2023-2025 biennial budget, specifically to increase state support to 90% to provide relief to local districts and ensure that they can invest adequate local resources for all students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Survival Coalition of more than 20 statewide disability organizations agrees with a new report from the Education Law Center concluding that \u201cWisconsin\u2019s low reimbursement rate for special education will leave school districts on the hook for\u00a0$1.25 billion,\u00a0forcing them to divert funds intended for general education for all students.\u201d Findings from the report showed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}