The presentation by the Franklin (MA) Public Schools on Understanding the Budget. Presented and discussed during the budget workshop held on Monday Jan 25, 2010.
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1. Franklin Public Schools School Budget Drivers Salary Health
Insurance Transportation Special Education
2. Salaries and fringe benefits account for 83% of the 2010
budget 2010 Budget (in Millions) Other Expenses $2.3 Total
Transport - Reg. 2010 & SPED Budget $2.4 Salaries $37.8
$50,297,820 Out of District Tuition $3.8 Health & Medicare
Costs $4.0 Source: Franklin Public Schools Note: Other Expenses
include Materials, PD and Contracted Services
3. Salary Budget 75% of Budget Salary Steps and Lanes
Contractual Obligations Course reimbursement Longevity
payments
4. Health Insurance 8% of Budget Re-design of Health
Plans=Lower Costs
5. Transportation Cost of contract 2.4M overall Pay to Ride In-
district Special Education Out of district Special Education
Transportation
6. Special Education Programmatic and Budgetary Requirements
Franklin Public Schools Sally Winslow & Beth Fitzmaurice
January 25, 2010
7. General Assumptions Special Education services for eligible
students are mandated by federal and state regulations The Federal
Law is IDEIA 2004 (Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act) The State Law is 603 CMR 28:00 (formerly Chapter
766)
8. General Assumptions All school districts must follow federal
requirements under the law State requirements must at a minimum be
consistent with federal law, but can exceed federal
requirements
9. General Assumptions Under the law, school districts are
required to provide eligible students with a Free and Appropriate
Public Education (FAPE) within the Least Restrictive Environment
(LRE)
10. General Assumptions The school district must be able to
provide services to students with a range of needs The types of
services and programming provided continually change to reflect the
current needs of students Most students will access the curriculum
through services/programs within the school district (LRE) Some
children with more intensive, low incidence disabilities will
require highly specialized outside placements in order to access
the curriculum
11. General Assumptions Recommendations around eligibility and
placements are made by the Special Education TEAM The TEAM develops
an IEP (Individual Education Program) which includes services to be
implemented in the LRE for that child Recommendations to place a
child in an out of district placement are made only after all
options within the school have been exhausted (LRE)
12. Types of Evaluations Psychological (Cognitive) Academic
Achievement Educational History Classroom Teacher Report Home
Assessment Speech & Language Occupational Therapy Physical
Therapy Specialty Evaluations
13. Disability Categories Autism Developmental Delay (3-9 yr
olds) Intellectual Impairment Sensory: Hearing, Vision, Deaf-Blind
Neurological Emotional Communication Physical Specific Learning
Health
14. Eligibility for Services: Four Criteria Child must have a
disability in one of the federally defined disability categories
Child is not making effective progress in school The lack of
progress is due to the childs disability The child requires
specially designed instruction or related services in order to
access the general education curriculum
15. Continuum of Services In District Programs: Full Inclusion
Program Partial Inclusion Program Substantially Separate Classroom
Out-of-District Programs: Public Day School (9100
line)/Collaborative (9400 line) Private Day School (9300 line)
Residential School (9300 line) Out of State Programs (9200
line)
16. Educational Collaboratives Educational Collaboratives are
public entities comprised of member school districts who join
together to develop cost effective programming for low incidence
student populations FPS belongs to two Educational Collaboratives:
BiCounty (BICO) Collaborative and ACCEPT Collaborative
17. Educational Collaboratives Substantially Separate Programs,
located within public school buildings Annie Sullivan Middle School
Franklin High School Public Day Programs, located in free standing
facilities having no onsite access to inclusive services
18. Eligible Students Pre-School: 101 Elementary: 411 Middle:
276 High School: 303 Total: 1091
19. Continuum of Services State Rate Franklin Public Schools
(1091) Full Inclusion 55.7 % 63.2% Program Partial Inclusion 22.5 %
18% Program Substantially 15.1 % 13.2% Separate Classroom
Collaborative, Day 6.7 % 5.6% School or Residential School
20. Out of District Students MA Public Schools: 15
Collaborative Programs: 19 Private Day: 29 Residential: 14
Institutionalized Setting: 0 Total: 77
21. Transportation Services Under the Law, school districts are
mandated to provide transportation to students with disabilities in
the same manner as it would for all students If the child is placed
away from the local school, transportation must be provided If due
to a disability the child requires special transportation in order
to participate in services, the school must provide it
22. Special Education Transportation Regular School Bus
Franklin Vans (88) Parent Reimbursement (5) Private Vendors (61)
Ambulance Service (0)
23. Out of District Tuitions MA Public Schools and
Collaboratives set their own tuitions and are the most
cost-effective Private School rates are governed by the MA
Operational Services Division (OSD) Some private school programs
have applied for rate increases through Program Reconstruction
School districts are provided with some relief from special
education costs (OOD & In-District expenses) through Circuit
Breaker
24. Current OOD Tuitions (As of 1/15/10) MA Public Schools: $
202,035 Collaboratives: $ 906,144 Day Programs: $ 1,590,253
Residential Programs: $ 1,922,277 Total: $ 4,620,710 Per Pupil
Expenditure to Out of District Schools: FPS = $18,373 & State
Average = $20,497
26. Other Variables having Budgetary Impact Students with
significant needs moving into the district Students with
significant needs moving out of the district Students requiring
additional services or 1:1 inclusion aide Changes in student
placement to more or less restrictive settings Unilateral
placements Influence from State Agencies (DCF, DMH, DDS)
27. What is Circuit Breaker? Expenses claimed from this year
are reimbursed next year Transportation can not be claimed Claim =
$ tuition 4(foundation) x 30% Foundation rate increases each year
Reimbursement % has decreased each year FY 08 = 72%, FY 09 = 70%,
FY10 = 35%
28. The moral of the story Special Education spending is a
moving target based on many variables
29. Balancing ActDoing whats right for kids & being
fiscally responsible The Budget Student Needs