New Funding Model For Special Education
Final Report

Legislative Analyst's Office
Department of Education
Department of Finance
November 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Executive Summary

• Introduction

• Chapter 1 -- The Current Special Education Program

  • The Master Plan for Special Education

  • Special Education Enrollment and Funding

  • The Current Funding Model

  • Problems With the Current Funding Model

• Chapter 2 -- Response to Legislative Direction

  • Supplemental Report Directive

  • The Three Agencies' Strategy

• Chapter 3 -- Principles to Guide the Development of
  A New Funding Model

• Chapter 4 -- Proposal for a New Funding Model

  • Overview of the Proposed New Model

  • Area-Wide Approach to Service Directory

  • Population-Based Formula

  • Phase-in of Funding Changes

  • Accountability

  • Phase-in of Accountability Changes

  • Non-public School/Agencies

  • Licensed Children's Institutions (LCIs)

  • Low-Incidence Fund (LIF)

  • Open Issues

• Appendix A -- 1994 Supplemental Report Language

• Appendix B -- Information Resources

• Appendix C -- Phase-In of the New Funding Model

• Appendix D -- Nonpublic Schools

  Appendix E -- "Encroachment"

  Appendix F -- Questions and Answers on
  The Proposed Special Education Funding Model