How to distribute instructional budgets between buildings which maintenance projects to complete with limited funds. Special verses regular education. Severely disabled students entering the district requires funds normally used for regular education significantly. We were unable to add a teacher at the high school due to this expense. We have experienced a crowding out effect.
Special education is in the negative.
This has caused extra work for education. We have experienced difficulty in hiring of new LD teacher as well as the assignment of aides. New IEP procedures giving parents influence has caused more aides to be employed to work with only individual very needy students. Special education teachers have a high number of aides and those dollars have come from somewhere. Tried layoff of aides and teachers and aides were unhappy to say the least.