Interagency Out-of-State Residential Placement Work Group

October 10, 2005 Interagency Out-of-State Residential Placement Work Group There are approximately 1,400 children being served in residential facilities outside of New York State. These children have been placed out-of-state through Committees on Special Education (CSEs) in their Local Educational Agencies (LEA) and through their Local Departments of Social Services (LDSS). Placements through these agencies receive financial reimbursement and technical support from the State Education Department (SED) and the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), respectively, as well as federal funds and county tax dollars. In the five-and-a-half-year period, 1998 . . .