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Special Resource Center loses services
Budget: Disabled students lack aid due to low funding
By: Ologa Thompson and Evan Ortega
Issue date: 5/13/04 Section: News
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For the first time in 27 years, the Special Resource Center will lose services, which will affect 1,200 to 1,300 students, a supervisor said.
The center provides special aid to students with disabilities with health impairments such as visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing and learning disabled students, the EC catalog reads.
"When I first came to El Camino, I had a learning disability," Scarlett Mitchell, aeronautical engineering major, said. "The Special Reource Center helped me become eligible for different services I might not have received otherwise."
Due to budget cuts, the Special Resource Center has reduced its services, supplies, staff and hours.
"(With) our special funding, it's difficult to serve all the students with all of the needs," Lyn Clemons, supervisor of the Special Resources Center, said. "We have to solely support all of our services with just our special money, without any money from the general fund."
The Special Resource Center is categorically funded, meaning it receives special funding from the government to assure services for students with disabilities.
"The federal government and the state government gives each of the community colleges in California a certain amount of money to provide services for students with disabilities," said Jo Ann Madden, disabled students program and services supervisor of the Special Resource Center.
The center will lose money from the special funding, which is not part of the general fund; s it will lose money from the district funding as well, Clemons said.
"There was a small cut from the special funding and there was a huge cut from the general funding; within the huge cut of the general funding is where we felt it the most," she said.
The center will have to rely on the support of the special funding to maintain the services provided to disabled students.
"With the district money being cut, we did not receive any of the money to meet our obligation," Clemons said.
The center provides special aid to students with disabilities with health impairments such as visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing and learning disabled students, the EC catalog reads.
"When I first came to El Camino, I had a learning disability," Scarlett Mitchell, aeronautical engineering major, said. "The Special Reource Center helped me become eligible for different services I might not have received otherwise."
Due to budget cuts, the Special Resource Center has reduced its services, supplies, staff and hours.
"(With) our special funding, it's difficult to serve all the students with all of the needs," Lyn Clemons, supervisor of the Special Resources Center, said. "We have to solely support all of our services with just our special money, without any money from the general fund."
The Special Resource Center is categorically funded, meaning it receives special funding from the government to assure services for students with disabilities.
"The federal government and the state government gives each of the community colleges in California a certain amount of money to provide services for students with disabilities," said Jo Ann Madden, disabled students program and services supervisor of the Special Resource Center.
The center will lose money from the special funding, which is not part of the general fund; s it will lose money from the district funding as well, Clemons said.
"There was a small cut from the special funding and there was a huge cut from the general funding; within the huge cut of the general funding is where we felt it the most," she said.
The center will have to rely on the support of the special funding to maintain the services provided to disabled students.
"With the district money being cut, we did not receive any of the money to meet our obligation," Clemons said.