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Schools’ costs top state estimates

Report finds $2b gap for health care, special education

By Stephanie Ebbert

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 27, 2011

The state’s school-funding formula underestimates the rising cost of special education and teachers’ health care by more than $2 billion a year, forcing some schools to cut costs on regular education and creating inequities in a system designed to make funding more fair, according to a new report. The report, by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, found major gaps between the “foundation budget’’ - the state’s estimate of what each district needs to run its schools- and what the 328 districts are actually spending.

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