BROOKLYN Brooklyn is facing another shortfall in state funding for special education costs. For the second year in a row it appears the town may get less than it anticipated for the excess cost grant, which the state offers to mitigate the cost to municipalities for the most expensive special needs cases. The excess cost grant is supposed to pay 100 percent of the costs of education for any special needs child whose services are 4.5 times higher than the average per pupil cost in a district, said Sheila McKay, senior staff associate for government relations for CABE. After talking with a staff member at the state Department of Education Holmes said she learned the state only funds about 80.8 percent of the costs to a district. School districts are expected to send the state their special education costs on Dec. mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_credit+”; mainImageContainerInnerHTML_sm += ”+mainImageData_caption+”; $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container_sm’).css(‘width’,smimgwidth).css(‘padding’,’3px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding – 3)+’px 0 0’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container_sm’).css(‘width’,sm_img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding + 3)+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-caption-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px 0 0 ‘+mainImageData_leftPadding+’px’); $(‘#art-main-image-credit-container’).css(‘width’,img.width).css(‘padding’,’5px ‘+(mainImageData_leftPadding)+’px 0 0’);