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.
Are the counsels county residents?
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DeleteHe is a hired gun for MCPS and lives in Ellicott City.
DeleteWhat is the reason for the costs of outside counsels decreasing? Perhaps MCPS is negotiating disputes more rationally than just outright rejecting parents' complaints?? Or, maybe the system is correcting some of the flaws without admitting past errors?
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