nisht – thanks for the info. Here the district may pay about $65,000 to a different district because that was the determined price of “tuitioning out” but they don’t actually spend that much per kid in house. They have so many more kids and staff tho, so it’s hard to know exactly. I think the outgoing payment is definitely more than they would have spent. The exception would be some of the really high needs kids, or the kids tuitioned to fancy private schools with huge price tags.
(Our frum schools don’t have sped so I don’t know what it would cost. I do know that any sped program opening would need to start by adding a room to an existing school so even $650,000 wouldn’t cut it.)
If you are talking about LD type kids who are generally serviced in the classroom but require a part time push-in teacher and therapists, that would be a lot cheaper but would probably never ever get approved for funding.