Who are the reliable monitoring person to at least account the funding for special education in the elementary grade?

After every IEP meeting, the school team meets to fill out a "funding matrix," which has very specific requirements to determine, based on the IEP, how much funding a child needs. There are 5 domains and most students do not have problems in all of the domains.

Each domain is rated by the increasing need for education or accommodations in that area. Some of the domains include, Independent Functioning, Communication, Health Care, Curriculum and Learning Environment, Social/Emotional Behavior and each Domain consists of 5 levels of increasingly involved needs. If a student has no needs in Health Care, Independent Functioning of Social/Emotional Behavior, they would get a "Level 1" in those categories, indicating there is no need for funding.

Most students with mild to moderate learning disabilities, typically have fairly low numbers in most categories, but may be a Level 4 or 5 in Curriculum and Learning, which means they would qualify at the lowest level of funding. Children with severe autism or intellectual disabilities, typically get high numbers across the board and usually qualify for the highest level of funding because they have more needs. Most special education students are at the lowest funding level, but a few do have these high numbers, simply because they need more.

And actually, the danger is not that kids with special needs get over funded, but that the money they generate is used for other things, such as regular education smaller class sizes in K-2. Some districts do not attach the funding for a specific child and the money comes to the school in a lump sum and some principals DO fund other programs with some of the money.

If fact, any parent with a child in special education, who feels their child is in a crowded special education class with 1-3 different grade levels, would be very smart to challenge the principal's use of funds by demanding an audit. One parent did this is in a county and found the $48,000 meant for special education was being used in other areas.

So in answer to your question, there are very strict guidelines about how special education students are funded and the biggest problem is that the funds are not used for them.

Your question doesn't make a lot of sense.

The state provides funding for special education. It isn't an unlimited amount, and it has to cover teacher and para salary as well as various therapies, professional development, etc.. There's usually an administrator who is in charge of budgeting the money and keeping track of what goes where.

Liquidation means something is brought to an 'end'. I assume that you mean 'dispensation' since schools do continue to offer special education programs and do continue to obtain funding for this.

I'd be really ticked if funding for special education was 'liquidated'. There should not be anybody reliably doing this since the public schools have to provide FAPE.

The Department of Education's special education division handles funding for special education.