News Report | April 3, 2016
Los Angeles County Office Of Education Reinventing How It Delivers Special Education, System In ‘Crisis’
The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) is reorganizing how it delivers special education services to make them more relevant to school district needs, after a report determined that the system was in crisis. Between 2012 and 2014, state tax revenue for the LACOE special education division program dropped from nearly $84 million to $38 million, and student enrollment dropped from 5,219 in the 2012/2013 school year to 2,617 in the 2014/2015 school year.
Local schools stopped contracting with LACOE for the services for two main reasons: to maintain instructional continuity between the general student . . .