Special ed rosters inaccurate; Schools to lose funds
August 29th, 2007The Los Angeles Times reports that the Santa Ana school district will lose state funding because, among other things, teachers misrepresented the number of special education students they had in their classrooms.
… the audit found [that] 467 special-education students who were being mainstreamed into about two dozen regular classes were not included on class rosters.
These students were on separate rosters maintained by special education teachers, who were supposed to be assisting them in the classroom but sometimes did not.
Because these students brought the total classroom enrollments to more than 22 students, the classes were not eligible for class-size reduction funding, so the district is losing $89,856, or nearly 8% of the state funding it expected to receive, auditor Christy White said.
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