A long-time member of the St. Cloud School Board, Jerry Von Korff, and the St. Cloud NAACP plan to sue the state over the lack of adequate funding over special education.
The rising cost of special education in Minnesota is contributing to a dispute over emergency funding for schools during the last full week of the legislative session.
After a devastating fire in 2014 the Roosevelt Education Center is rising from the ashes. The school was rebuilt following the model of the old Roosevelt school, with the gym being the only structure to survive the fire.
The St. Cloud Area School Board is considering spending $70,000 on a new study of the costs of special education programs. The school board already approved doing a study at an earlier meeting, tonight's action would approve the use of a Boston-based firm to conduct the study.