Friday, June 14, 2019

Time to Apply for Special Needs Scholarships

The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement. 


The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced plans today to award Education Scholarship Accounts (ESA) for the 2019-20 school year. 
 

Established by the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act of 2015, the ESA program provides scholarships to parents of students with disabilities who want to remove their child from a public school to seek educational services elsewhere. ESA recipients are eligible to be reimbursed up to $6,765 in 2019-20 for the cost of private educational services. 

The legislative appropriation for 2019-20 provides for approximately 695 ESA accounts for the 2019-20 school year. The MDE anticipates that 415 ESAs will be used by students returning from the 2018-19 school year. Applicants who would like to be considered for the remaining 280 ESAs must apply by June 20, 2019. 

ESAs will be awarded on a first come, first served basis and priority will be given to families that have previously submitted an eligible application but have not yet been awarded an ESA.

Letters will be mailed to new ESA recipients upon approval, no later than July 1, 2019. Applications received after June 20 will be reviewed and considered for approval on a rolling basis in accordance with the ESA law, until such time as 50% of the enrollment cap is reached. 

To participate in the ESA program:
  • the applicant must be a Mississippi resident;
  • the student must have had an active Individualized Education Program (IEP) within five years of the date of application; and
  • the parent must sign an agreement to adhere to the rules of participation.
Parents who are accepted into the program will be reimbursed quarterly after submission of a reimbursement request with proper documentation of expenses incurred.  Funds can also be paid quarterly directly to an educational service provider if approved by the parent.

For more information, visit www.mdek12.org/OSE/ESA or call the MDE Office of Special Education at 601-359-3498.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

More libtard handouts to buy votes. This scheme to fraudulently spend my hard earned tax dollars deserves to be exposed. Why aren't the CL and other local news outlets reporting on this swamp?

Anonymous said...

" Funds can also be paid quarterly directly to an educational service provider if approved by the parent."

HAHA

Anonymous said...

I disagree with 12:04. This is an opportunity for the family to recoup some of their taxes spent on an educational system that has failed them. And, no, I do not have a special needs student.

Anonymous said...

2:08, keep holding your hand out and see where you end up. Eventually you have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and take some personal responsibility for your own failures.

Anonymous said...

I disagree with 12:04, and I have a special needs student. However, I cannot take advantage of this, because she is privately schooled. My child is thriving out of the public school environment, but my child's school is not eligible for these funds. So I'm losing two ways from the wallet!

Ultimately this is going to open the door for vouchers, and more private schools are going to pop up because of it.

Anonymous said...

This is a way to take public dollars headed towards public schools and redirect them to private businesses. This is no "libtard" conspiracy. Quite the opposite.

Anonymous said...

Agreed 1:29....no libtard conspiracy. A rich redneck conspiracy? Yep. To pay off friends. It's just a good ole' boy slush fund. The legislature screams poverty for roads, bridges, education across the board, but they always have a little pocket change that serves the connected.

Anonymous said...

My child has the special need of not having to sit in a room full of violent and disruptive cradle-to-the-grave welfare recipients mimicking primates all day and prevent anyone else who has an IQ above 75 from learning.

Can I get some help with that?

Rod Knox said...

That pocket reserved for the well connected is VERY DEEP.


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