Special Education Cost Drivers Task Force

Task Force to Identify Special Education Cost Drivers and
Innovative Approaches to Services
(Resolve 2017, c. 26)

 

Meeting Dates

The Task Force has completed its meetings and will be issuing its report soon.

• Tuesday, December 19th from 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  Room 202, Cross Office Building in Augusta
  
  
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Materials
    
    
• Monday, December 4, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Room 202, Cross State Office Building in Augusta
           Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials 
• Something Has Got To Change: Improving Services for Students with (and without) Special Needs, Nathan Levenson, December 4, 2017
• Improving and Expanding Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Supports: 10 Best Practices by Nathan Levenson 2017
• Improving Special Education: Best Practices for Cost Effectively Raising Achievement by Nathan Levenson - 2016
• Maine Small Schools Coalition Membership memo to Special Education Task Force 11-17-2017
• Department of Education Responses to Nov. 28, 2017 Request to Governor Lepage and Commissioner Hasson - December 4, 2017
• Department of Health and Human Services Responses to Questions from the Task Force- December 4, 2017
• Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies memo and enclosed documents to Special Education Task Force - November 30, 2017
• Special Education Initiatives in the Maine FY 2018 & 2019 Biennium Budget Bill - PL 2017 c 284 - LD 390
• An Act To Establish a State Educational Medicaid Officer - PL 2015 c 359 -LD 582
  
  
  
• Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  Room 202, Cross State Office Building in Augusta
• Meeting Agenda
  
  
• Meeting Materials
• MADSEC Presentations: Special Education Occupations - Response to Intervention - MaineCare Seed/Match Procedures - Medicaid Revenues from EPS Formula
• Maine DOE and Maine DHHS Report pursuant to Resolve 2011, Chapter 145 (LD 1003), 125th Maine Legislature, “Resolve, To Assist Maine Schools To Obtain Federal Funds for Medically Necessary Services”
• Maine DOE Presentations: Cost Driver Categories - State Plans with Federal Centers for Medicaid Services - CDS and Early Intervention - Maintenance of Effort Finance Data
• Maintenance of Effort Fiscal Policies and Procedures - MEPRI 2016 Special Education Allocations
• “Something Has Got to Change: Rethinking Special Education” Nathan Levenson Report
• Thursday, October 19, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon
  Room 202, Cross State Office Building in Augusta
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Materials
    
    • EPS Special Education Cost Component - July 2016 Report from MEPRI to DOE
    • DOE Powerpoint Presentation to theTask Force (10-19-2017)
    • Special Education Cost Drivers and Innovation Approaches in Maine Schools - Dr. Katie Hawes

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Additional Task Force Information

Working Group Members

Working Group Staff:

Phillip McCarthy, Legislative Analyst
Lucia Nixon, Legislative Analyst
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