GREENVILLE — Thursday, May 28, 2009
“South Carolina Superintendent of Education Jim Rex said Thursday that he will ask the United States Department of Education for an exception in mid-June if courts do not rule by then on lawsuits involving stimulus money… South Carolina is slated to receive more than $25 billion in Title 1 and other special education funds through the federal stimulus package. This money is apart from the $700 million at the center of the court battle.” Full story here.
IDEAmoneywatch RESPONDS: Seems to us that $700 million is hardly worth arguing over! Meanwhile, the article reports that IDEA funds are “being put in school district budgets to help save jobs in Title One and IDEA programs.” Of course, IDEA funds can’t be used to save Title I jobs, and shouldn’t be used to save special education jobs that were previously paid with local funds – that’s called “supplanting” … Maybe the story has the details confused, or maybe not…