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For the past year, the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding, established by HB 1525, has examined options to improve the approach to special education funding. Under current law, funding is provided to students served in special education based upon the location of a student’s educational setting.
- Chair’s Opening Remarks
- Recommendations:
- Background: Current System of Special Education Funding
- Why Changes are Needed
- Commission Recommendations
- Recommendation # 1: Transition to a Service Intensity Based Formula System.
- Recommendation 7: Increase Local Educator Capacity by establishing targeted grant programs similar to TEA’s Grow Your Own Program.
- Implementation Timeline
I am extremely honored to chair the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding. I serve with the brightest of minds and the most caring of hearts. This Commission has sought real-world solutions to very complex funding challenges. We have researched and reviewed many funding recommendations and heard many invited and public testifiers. I believe...
The Commission recommends the following formula- and non-formula-based funding changes. All recommendations that were not approved by a unanimous vote are noted below and in the text description of the applicable recommendation.
While special education funding changes have been made within the last several years at the state level, the focus on overall school finance in the last several years also generated renewed interest in thoroughly reviewing the way the state funds special education. Special education in public schools is funded both through federal and state appropr...
The Commission considered increasing current weights to generate a higher special education allotment within the funding system. However, after extensive investigation, the Commission strongly believes that the current funding formula must be transformed to allow the state and LEAs to provide for the student based on his or her individual needs. Th...
The Commission carefully reviewed and discussed all recommendations brought forth by stakeholders and individual Commission members. The following sections represent the Commission’s recommendations for consideration by the 88th Texas Legislature. As shown in the above charts, the number of students served by special education is significantly incr...
To fully reach Texas’ goals for academic success for students with disabilities, Texas should move to an intensity-based funding formula that considers each student’s educational arrangement and specialized services required. This formula should include multiple tiers and service groups to effectively account for the unique, individualized needs of...
Special education teachers; dyslexia therapists; paraprofessionals; evaluation staff, such as diagnosticians; and related service personnel, such as speech language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and orientation and mobility specialists are in huge demand across Texas public schools. It is especial...
The implementation of the non-formula-based recommendations described above could be implemented during the first biennium upon passage of statute and appropriation, as well as the formula-based recommendations on providing a cost offset for FIIEs and the increase in the per mileage rate for special education transportation. However, the Intensit...
Nov 14, 2022 · House Bill 1525, 87th Texas Legislature, established the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding to develop and make recommendations of financing special education in public schools. The commission shall develop recommendations to address issues related to special education funding.
Nov 14, 2022 · Funding model. Student eligibility. Student enrollment. Eligible expenses. Spending patterns over time. Rural students. Principles We Recommend: Special education is a service, not a setting. Empower families to support unique needs & abilities. Consider data from Supplemental Special Education Services program. Texas Funding Model.
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