IDEA Part B
Federal special education money, on a federal formula, routinely conflated with Ohio’s six special education weights — and the conflation matters because the two count different children and are computed different ways. verified
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Ohio’s weights are a multiplier on a state-defined category; IDEA Part B is a block allocation. Special education weights attach a multiple to a pupil in one of six clinical categories and run through the state share. IDEA Part B allocates to a district on a base amount plus population and poverty factors — not on its count of children with disabilities at all, beyond a frozen base from 1999. A district that identifies more students receives no more Part B money for them. verified
So federal special education funding does not respond to a district’s special education population, and any analysis that reads the two channels as a combined per-disabled-pupil figure is combining a rate with a lump sum.
The proportionate share is a real deduction. Part B requires a district to spend a proportionate share of its allocation on children with disabilities enrolled by their parents in non-public schools within its boundaries — money the district administers and does not control. Each allocation file carries it as its own column beside the district’s own count, and four years of it are now a held series. verified IDEA Part B Allocations to Districts
The receiving-entity list is not the district list. The FY2021 file lists 997 entities: traditional districts, community schools, and county boards of developmental disabilities. Joint vocational school districts do not appear at all, because federal special education money reaches career-technical students through their member districts — so a statewide roll-up built from this file silently omits career-technical provision, and the omission is undetectable from the file itself. That is how Eastland-Fairfield was confirmed as structurally different rather than merely missing. verified
Congress has never funded it at the promised level. The 1975 Act contemplated a federal contribution of up to 40% of the excess cost of educating a child with a disability; the actual figure has run far below that for the whole life of the statute, which is why the shortfall is a standing item in every state’s budget politics. The Ohio-specific number is not established here. open
What this repository computed Contents
Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.
The proportionate share, as the department’s files add up Contents
The four final editions put the statewide proportionate share at $15,174,643.47 in FY2021,
$15,560,688.50 in FY2022, $16,267,189.29 in FY2023 and $16,433,446.71 in FY2024. No
edition prints a total row, so each figure is this repository’s sum of every agency’s cell.
verified crates/project
In FY2024 the share was 3.65% of the school-age allocation. It was owed by 232 agencies,
and the same editions count 10,245 non-public school students with disabilities. Every other
agency on the list owes nothing. Across the four years the share stays between 3.6% and 3.9% of
the allocation, and the number of agencies owing it between 225 and 232. verified crates/project
FY2021’s count is a floor. Fifty-seven of its nonpublic count cells are printed <10, and
Brookville Local’s share is printed blank rather than zero. FY2022 to FY2024 suppress no
nonpublic count. verified crates/project
Beside Category 3, never inside it Contents
The share is the second federal channel that reaches chartered nonpublic pupils, after Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools. It is smaller than either that program or any year of Category 3, and it is not paid to the schools at all. The district keeps the money and buys services it controls for the pupils. Adding it to auxiliary services would turn a federal set-aside inside a public district’s grant into a state payment to private schools. inference
The FY2022 American Rescue Plan supplement carries a proportionate share of its own. It is a separate grant and is not included above. verified IDEA Part B Allocations to Districts
Properties Contents
| Name | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part B — Grants to States |
|---|---|
| Level | federal |
| Legal basis | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part B, Section 611; 20 U.S.C. 1411. Allocated to states, sub-allocated by the state education agency to local educational agencies. verified |
| Restriction | Restricted to excess costs of special education and related services, with maintenance-of-effort and supplement-not-supplant conditions: a district may not reduce its own special education spending because Part B money arrived. Includes a mandatory proportionate share for parentally-placed non-public students. verified A second gate, from the accountability side. Ohio's ESSA plan, as it stands to be amended in April 2026, proposes that persistently identified schools may be subject to "annual approval of expenditure of all federal funds by the Department", IDEA named alongside Title I A, and that districts with many such schools may have their IDEA expenditure plans approved likewise. verified as a statement of what the amendment proposes Approval by the U.S. Department of Education is not established here. open Worth noting because IDEA money does not respond to disability counts and now may not respond freely to the district's own judgment about how to spend it either. The channel is a lump sum on a 1999 base, and the discretion over that sum is what a school improvement designation would narrow. inference |
| How it grows | Base amount frozen at each district's FY1999 allocation, with growth distributed on general population and poverty rather than on disability counts. verified The practical effect is that the channel drifts away from the distribution of need over time, and a district whose identified population has grown since 1999 is funded on a twenty-five-year-old base. inference |
| Series in the repository | crates/project/fixtures/idea-part-b-allocations.csv, built by the dew-idea-part-b connector from the department's final allocation editions for FY2021-FY2024. It has one row per agency per year, keyed on IRN, with both student counts, the allocation and the proportionate share. project::ledger::nonpublic_federal::idea_part_b totals it by year. verifiedIn the F-33 panel, crates/dispersion/fixtures/f33-ohio-panel.csv, IDEA is still inside the undifferentiated federal column and cannot be separated from it. |
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The pages outside the corpus that link here, and the section of each the link sits in.
Links Contents
| Instance of | Revenue Stream |
|---|---|
| Parallels | FSFP Special Education Weights |
| Parallels | FSFP Preschool Special Education |
| Excludes | Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools |
| Conditioned by | Every Student Succeeds Act |
| Bears on | Adequacy |
| Sourced from | IDEA Part B Allocations to Districts |
| Parallels | Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools |
Also mentions
Pointed at by
| Every Student Succeeds Act | Conditions |
|---|---|
| More Rigorous Interventions (CSI) | Gates |
| Auxiliary Services | mentions |
| Casino Tax — County Student Fund | mentions |
| Title I, Part A | mentions |
What this node does not hold Contents
the series before FY2021 and the American Rescue Plan supplement — The department serves FY2011-FY2020 as `_Adjusted` editions in a different layout, and the FY2022 supplement is a second grant with its own share. Neither is read, so the series is four years long and covers the regular grant only.
What this node used to say Contents
The corpus is not rewritten to have always been right. Each entry is a claim this node carried, what replaced it, and the thing that settled it.
Correction 1 of 1
It said
The description said the FY2021 allocation file “lists 979 entities”.
It says
It lists 997. The count was made by hand before the file was parsed. The connector now reads every IRN line, refuses a duplicate, and the test pins 997 rows for FY2021.
Settled by
Building dew-idea-part-b for
#762.
What else it touched
One count. The claim it supports, that the list is not the district list, is unchanged, and the catalog entry carried the same figure and is corrected with it.