About Us
Click here for a list of the Coalition’s members. Click here to contact the coalition.
Recommendations for Special Education Funding
September 2009
Background:
The Coalition for Special Education Funding Reform is comprised of ten statewide organizations concerned with special education funding and policy. Organized in 1996, as the Comprehensive Educational Improvement Financing Act (CEIFA) was developed, the Coalition was successful in influencing the new special education funding formula. Since then, our group has continued to monitor issues affecting special education funding and special education policy.
We seek a special education funding mechanism that is adequate, efficient, equitable, predictable, flexible, transparent, fully placement-neutral, and is accountable for both spending and student outcomes. To learn more about our goals and recommendations, click here.
The Coalition includes:
• The Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities (ABCD)
• The Arc of New Jersey
• The Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ)
• ASAH, formerly the Association of Schools and Agencies for the Handicapped
• Disability Rights New Jersey
• Education Law Center;
• The Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN)
• New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• New Jersey Special Education Practicioners
• The Special Education Leadership Council of New Jersey
