Special Education Legal Expenses
Special education legal fees for outside counsel for November 2015 totaled $39,413.
The year-to-date total of $77,027 is $50,505 (39.6 percent) less than the same period
in the previous year. In addition, total year-to-date special education legal costs of $77,027
are $123,453 (61.6 percent) less than the budgeted amount of $200,480 through this time period.
The Jeffrey A. Krew bill for November 2015 totaled $38,995.
The Carney Kelehan bill for November 2015 totaled $418.
*Note: This cost does not include the cost to taxpayers of the SEVEN employees in the ill-named Resolution and Compliance unit. Let's have a show of hands for how many times these folks have actually enforced compliance with IDEA. Anyone? Anyone?
*Note: This cost does not include the cost to taxpayers of the full-time attorney employed in the "Legal Services Unit." For more information on what the "Legal Services Unit" has accomplished in the past, please click HERE.
Franz Kafka got it right. "Frankly, it isn't their function (the control authorities) to hunt out errors in the vulgar sense, for errors don't happen, and even when once in a while an error does happen, as in your case, who can say finally that it's an error?" There is an official misuse of official MCPS power when parents of children with disabilities challenge the system.
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