Texas Announces $84.5M Plan to Improve Special Education
January 24, 2018
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive
Dive Brief:
- The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is proposing to hire state-level teams to oversee and support districts’ efforts to provide educational services for students with special needs, Community Impact reports.
- The plan, which will cost roughly $84.5 million, is the TEA’s response to a U.S. Department of Education report released last week showing that the state had essentially put a cap on the number of students who could receive services.
- The teams would conduct on-site audits of districts’ special education services, and the creation of an outreach campaign to reach families whose children have been denied services is also part of the proposal.