The Legislature’s own research department said that in the current fiscal year, schools are being shorted $173 million from covering the 92% of statewide excess costs as the law calls for. T SPED services are mandatory, and the federal government and Kansas legislature need to fund it. Underfunding SPED hurts all students.

-Deerfield school district spent $200,000 last year on special education; they had to transfer $167,000 to cover the state shortfall for special education.

-Liberal school district spent $5.5 million last year on special education; they had to transfer $2 million to cover the state shortfall for special education.

-Ft. Larned school district spent $1.8 million last year on special education; they had to transfer $0.75 million to cover the state shortfall for special education.

-Satanta school district spent $271,000 last year on special education; they had to transfer $112,00 to cover the state shortfall for special education.