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ASBO International has been asked to co-sponsor a bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide certain exceptions to the maintenance of effort requirement for local educational
agencies, and for other purposes.
I would like to feedback from all of you relative to the potential legislation.
Please respond as soon as you can as this is time sensitive.
Here’s what the bill does:
- It will allow districts to apply for a waiver to reduce their MoE levels if they have experienced a significant decline in financial resources (similar to what the State can do currently under IDEA).
- It will add two exceptions to the current exceptions under IDEA to reduce MoE if districts have made changes to their special education program operations that have decreased their overall local spending (we generalize these as "efficiencies"), but have not impacted services or instruction for special education students; and it would add an exception for LEAs to reduce their MoE level if the reason relates to a reduction of expenditures for employment related benefits provided to special education personnel such as pay, retirement contributions, annual and sick leave, and health and life insurance.
Thanks
John
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John D. Musso, CAE
Executive Director
ASBO International
jmusso@asbointl.org
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