Lawmakers should approve both funding proposals Gov. Maura Healey rolled out in the past month to ease the burden on schools facing a jump in special education costs, not one or the other, a top administration official said Tuesday.
A sizable increase in tuition that schools pay to special education providers for services looms in the fiscal year 2024 as the expiration of grant dollars shifts costs onto districts. Some communities are bracing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even a couple million dollars, more to serve the same amount of students.
