"Contrary to past practice and agreements, WPS and the Woodbridge Board of Education appear to be requesting that New Haven Public Schools pay for baseline education costs as well, inappropriately attempting to bill NHPS for these baseline costs, and then inaccurately alleging that NHPS doesn’t pay its bills," Harmon said. NHPS eventually agreed to pay WPS $131,728, he added. But the two sides failed to reach an agreement for the 2021-22 school year, and WPS attempted to bill NHPS for $262,774 in special education costs, Harmon said. “New Haven Public Schools’ long-standing practice and agreement with Woodbridge Public Schools has been to pay for our students’ individual special education services that exceed the baseline services that WPS would otherwise ordinarily provide to all its students with special needs," Justin Harmon, director of communications for NHPS, said in a statement.įor the 2020-21 school year, NHPS agreed to pay $59,811 to WPS for special education and related services, according to Harmon. According to the state Department of Education's website, the receiving district pays a portion of the extra costs for special education students in the program, and the remainder is paid by the district where the student lives.
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