Overview
- The comptroller’s office clarified that families who missed this year’s public-school special education evaluation could complete it before next year’s enrollment to qualify for up to $30,000.
- Under Senate Bill 2, private-school students receive about $10,500, home-schoolers get $2,000, and students with disabilities can receive up to $30,000 if they have a public-school evaluation.
- Officials said enabling late-evaluated students to access the higher tier would likely require additional legislative funding.
- Program rules accept medical documentation to grant priority in the application process, but funding eligibility relies on a narrower definition that requires a public-school evaluation.
- Districts report a surge of evaluation requests triggered by the 41-day application window that opened Feb. 4, and they must follow a 15-day consent, 45-school-day evaluation, and 30-day planning timeline.