An evidence-based blueprint for building therapeutic programming inside your district. Curriculum, data, staffing, legal foundation, and a real-time tracking platform, all of it included.
Between a self-contained classroom and an out-of-district placement, most districts have nothing. Teams default to sending students away, at a cost that dwarfs what an in-district alternative would require.
Contact us to learn more →The gap between what districts spend and what they could spend is the entire business case. Reclaim Education helps close it.
Adjust the sliders. These are planning estimates. Actual costs vary by state and district.
💰 Many districts fund this through IDEA Part B. See how →These are the students every district has. The ones who needed a different kind of support, not a different school. The right infrastructure made all the difference.
Four years after graduating, she reached out with news she couldn’t wait to share: she’d been accepted into a radiology program. Staying in her home district had given her the stability to finish high school, and the confidence to reach for something she once thought was out of her reach.
She was ready to give up. Instead, the program met her exactly where she was, with partial days, flexible supports, and the structure she needed to keep going. She graduated. Not long ago, she stopped to say thank you, and to say she’s thriving.
Her daughter just needed a safe place to finish, close to home and surrounded by her own community. The program gave her exactly that: the space and flexibility to graduate on her own terms. She went on to finish college and recently bought her first home, and her family remains forever grateful.
Stories reflect the types of outcomes therapeutic programs are designed to support. Details have been generalized to protect student and family privacy.
Every core design decision traces to published, peer-reviewed research.
Most districts don’t need new money to bring the Framework in-house. They need to point existing federal and state special education dollars at it correctly. Here’s how that typically works, and what to hand your business office.
Federal formula funds that flow to every public school district in the country. Districts commonly use Part B funds for special education curriculum development, staff professional development, and instructional materials designed to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, all categories the Framework fits into.
The 10+ staff training modules, the paraprofessional playbook, and the crisis-response training are standard in-service PD, the kind districts already budget for every year, just delivered as a complete, ready-to-run system instead of built from scratch.
Because one out-of-district placement can cost $80,000–$250,000+ a year, many districts fund the Framework directly from the savings generated by keeping a single student in-district, often making it self-funding within the first year.
IDEA Part B eligibility rules operate under the same federal framework in all 50 states, D.C., and U.S. territories. Every state education agency administers Part B funds under 34 CFR Part 300, so the core eligibility categories below don’t change state to state. What varies is each state’s application process and deadlines, which your special education director or business office already manages.
Federal rules place real limits on how Part B funds are used: funds may only cover the excess cost of educating students with disabilities, may not supplant state or local funds a district would otherwise spend, and any use of funds to pay a contractor or vendor must reflect a genuine need the district can’t reasonably meet internally, at a cost that’s reasonable and defensible to auditors. The IEP team, not any outside provider, always retains the authority to decide whether and how a program applies to an individual student.
We are not a law firm or your district’s auditor. This page is offered as a starting point, not funding advice specific to your district. Final determinations on allowable use always rest with your business office, special education director, and, where needed, your district’s legal counsel.
Reclaim Education was founded on a simple belief: every student belongs in their home district. Our team has lived this work from the classroom up, and built the infrastructure to make it possible at scale.
Keep students in district. Our mission is to help districts build the programs, infrastructure, and tools that keep students where they belong: in their home community, with their peers, with a real chance to thrive.
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