Cuts to Special Education? There’s a Kicker
Some students are identified with special needs because there's no other category. Read More...
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 3:44pm
Posted by Traci G
Jill Adams, executive director of Maine Administrators of Services for Children with Disabilities, said the proposed changes did not bother her.
“Many of the changes are changes we wanted originally,” she said. “In these times, we need to provide, but we need to provide within the laws, and our state rules go well beyond federal law.”
The kicker here is that the special education spending is not the only place where "our state rules go well beyond federal law" we are also beyond federal mandates for welfare..with no time limits and allowing convicted drug felons to apply for welfare.
If these changes were changes that the state wanted originally why didnt they just do it? it is obvious they are providing more than they are required to, at someone elses expense, they were not forced to do this they chose to.
Anyone want to make a bet that in the coming months welfare regulations in this state will start to fall more in line with federal ones?
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