Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities: Legislature introduces bills supporting special education funding: a win-win for students, families, school districts

Two bills (SB 852/AB859) introduced last week would provide sum sufficient funding to ensure schools are provided the special education funding they were already promised in the current state budget. If the legislation passes, schools would be guaranteed to received 42 cents back for every dollar spent on special education this budget year (up from 32 cents); next year that would increase to ...