S. Portland, ME: 4% increase in SPED costs

• Mar 15, 2018, Falmouth (ME) Forecaster: South Portland school budget proposes 4% tax hike http://www.theforecaster.net/south-portland-school-budget-proposes-4-tax-hike/ SOUTH PORTLAND — Superintendent of Schools Ken Kunin presented a fiscal 2019 budget Monday that would raise taxes by nearly 4 percent – even after cutting more than $400,000 in staff positions…. Kunin said in a meeting with city councilors earlier this year that South Portland will look at several key points to form the fiscal year 2019 school budget, including the increase in special education needs, maintaining current staffing levels, and renovations needed at two elementary schools. Regular instruction costs are up the most, at 6.5 percent, followed by an increase in special education costs, up 4.1 percent.