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Article: Half earmarked for special education
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- March 2, 2002
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Scituate officials say cost of services rising steadily
Jeffrey WhiteThe Patriot Ledger
SCITUATE - Driving the school department's $1.99 million override
request that town meeting will consider Monday night is $900,000
earmarked for special education.
The $3.9 million special-education budget request for next year is
34 percent more than the amount approved for this school year. Much
of the increase is out of hands of the school department, school
officials say.
While many residents remain critical of the override request,
school officials say most of next year's budget request is simply
unavoidable.
"It's not so much that we have increased numbers of students in
our program, but the ...