Reply #69: Lol! Game, Set, and Match proud2BlibKansas [View All]

[FBaggins]

Sorry I didn't look at your posting name before now.

You say that you work in special ed and your posting name says you're from Kansas.

Can you please explain for the rest of the board how your state's "catastrophic aid" funding works for special ed?

Specifically, if you aren't in Blue Valley, Olathe, or Shawnee Mission districts, can you tell the board how much less funding you're receiving per student because those three districts have suddenly discovered that an unusually high percentage of their disabled students have catastrophic disabilities?

And, of course, if you are from one of those districts can we all laugh now? :) 85% of newly designated "catastrophic" students come from one of those three districts and roughly 70% of state catastrophic aid funding now flows to those three districts. Of course these districts would NEVER mislabel a student for more money... so could you please link to stories of the natural disaster (or other) that actually crippled so many of your kids over the last two or three years? The easiest disaster story will be found for Shawnee Mission. They had no catastrophic claims until this year when they have 333 - shifting almost four million dollars from other district's special ed funding to their own. Those poor kids. It must have been horrifying.