Special education providers

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Three payees took 66.2% of special education vendor payments; Keystone was paid 4.4 times as much by FY2026.

Largest special education payees, by fund

General fundCircuit breakerIDEA grants

	General fund	Circuit breaker	IDEA grants
FLLAC (KEYSTONE)	$1,658,559	$557,056	$0
VAN POOL	$1,635,636	$23,291	$0
MAY INSTITUTE	$377,003	$614,430	$287,108
CENTER FOR APPLIED	$345,184	$99,617	$0
FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL	$382,558	$35,172	$0
ADVOCATES INC	$254,369	$0	$0
HORACE MANN EDUCATIO	$213,724	$12,560	$0
COTTING SCHOOL	$74,964	$104,928	$0
HEALTH SOLIANT	$0	$0	$160,620
SHAPIRO ROBERT	$77,158	$0	$0

Invoices paid, FY2023 to FY2026, by the fund each was paid from. The report cuts names at twenty characters.

Five largest payees, year by year

FLLAC (KEYSTONE)

+$826,849 since FY2023

$242,868 in FY2023 → $1,069,717 in FY2026

VAN POOL

+$273,539 since FY2023

$305,415 in FY2023 → $578,954 in FY2026

MAY INSTITUTE

+$66,324 since FY2023

$279,532 in FY2023 → $345,856 in FY2026

CENTER FOR APPLIED

+$12,079 since FY2023

$99,617 in FY2023 → $111,697 in FY2026

FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL

+$114,023 since FY2023

$19,765 in FY2023 → $133,788 in FY2026

	FLLAC (KEYSTONE)	VAN POOL	MAY INSTITUTE	CENTER FOR APPLIED	FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL
FY2023	$242,868	$305,415	$279,532	$99,617	$19,765
FY2024	$355,034	$355,790	$319,540	$114,068	$135,125
FY2025	$547,997	$418,768	$333,614	$119,419	$129,052
FY2026	$1,069,717	$578,954	$345,856	$111,697	$133,788

Each panel is one payee on the same scale. FY2026 is not yet closed.

1 · The facts

$7,780,498
paid to vendors for special education, FY2023 to FY2026
66.2%
of it to the three largest payees
136
payees named in those years
88.9%
of it to the ten largest
$242,868
to FLLAC (Keystone), FY2023
$1,069,717
to FLLAC (Keystone), FY2026
$1,432,513
to every vendor, FY2023
$2,700,512
to every vendor, FY2026, not yet closed
$418,768
to Van Pool, FY2025
$578,954
to Van Pool, FY2026
$110,349
to families, not named, four years, mostly mileage
—
what any one child’s services cost
not published

2 · What it shows

1
The ten largest of 136 named payees took 88.9% of the $7,780,498 paid to vendors in four years.
2
FLLAC (Keystone) was paid $242,868 in FY2023 and $1,069,717 in FY2026; all vendors rose 88.5%.
3
Van Pool, the special education carrier, was paid 38.3% more in FY2026 than in FY2025.

The largest special education payees, by year

	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	FY2026
FLLAC (KEYSTONE)	$242,868	$355,034	$547,997	$1,069,717
VAN POOL	$305,415	$355,790	$418,768	$578,954
MAY INSTITUTE	$279,532	$319,540	$333,614	$345,856
CENTER FOR APPLIED	$99,617	$114,068	$119,419	$111,697
FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL	$19,765	$135,125	$129,052	$133,788
ADVOCATES INC	$0	$0	$123,634	$130,735
HORACE MANN EDUCATIO	$92,199	$121,103	$12,982	$0
COTTING SCHOOL	$104,928	$74,964	$0	$0
HEALTH SOLIANT	$111,530	$49,090	$0	$0
SHAPIRO ROBERT	$65,525	$0	$11,632	$0
CHATTERBOXES LLC	$0	$73,469	$0	$0
PRECISION HUMAN RES	$0	$0	$0	$72,331

Names as the report prints them. The table stops at the largest payees, so no family’s payment can be read off it by subtraction.

What was said

“There is a discussion about Keystone Education Collaborative program and the rates being raised almost 11%. Dave Passion questions how the 14% increase was absorbed last year.”
Finance Committee minutes, 2024-03-14

1 · The facts

2 · What it shows

What was said

Sources