Special Education Finance Recommendations made by researchers at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of Califonia (PPIC) were released on November 29, 2016.   In an Ed Source article written by John Fensterwald and Jane Meredith Adams,  the PPIC recommendations include dismantling the current system for distributing special education funding for over seven hundred thousand students with disabilities.  Instead, they recommend to "send the money – billions of dollars – directly to local school districts, according to a much-anticipated report that’s expected to draw the attention of Gov. Jerry Brown and state education leaders."

The recommendation "would upend the way special education finance has worked in the state for nearly 40 years and potentially put out of business 133 regional special education agencies known as Special Education Local Plan Areas, or SELPAs."
 
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