Legislative Priorities: More Money for Special Education
The town's administration submitted its list of priorities for the legislature for fiscal 2014.
Restore the Circuit-Breaker funding. That's tops in Northborough's annual "State Legislative Issues" list for FY2014. In a letter sent to Gov. Deval Patrick and local legislative representatives and senators, this top priority mirrors Northborough's top concern last year, which is to restore this program that reimburses school districts that are mandated to provide high-cost programs for special education students. As it states in the letter, cuts to this program in the last three fiscal years left reimbursement rates ranging from 40 to 60 percent. In FY2010, these cuts translated into a loss of about $475,000, and in 2011, this loss exceeded $500,000. "This is a significant amount of money for the K-8 schools," said Town Administrator …
